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Heritage: these municipalities without a church

2023-01-26T15:40:31.565Z


INFOGRAPHY - For historical reasons, due to destruction during the war or due to lack of means to maintain them, which are these French municipalities where the bell tower is lacking?


For nearly two thousand years, steeples have drawn the horizon of the French landscape.

From the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, zero point of the roads of France, to the smallest chapels in the center of the villages, our cities have, over the centuries, developed around their church.

According to the inventory of the Conference of Bishops of France, there are today 42,258 churches and parish chapels assigned to worship, which is more than the 34,945 French municipalities.

Le Figaro has mapped these French municipalities which are an exception to the rule.

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Source: lefigaro

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