Cathedral of Saint-Maurice, Angers, France.
Cafe Saint-Maurice history since 1023, when on the site of a burned church was built New Time to divide two divisions - the Normans of Doua and Guillaume de Beaumont.
Today, the Cathedral of Saint-Maurice is one of the main defining monuments However, the national historical city, as well as the center of the Angers park. In the Middle Ages, the Cathedral of Saint-Maurice even claimed to house the head of John the Baptist, but lost it to the cathedral in Amiens.
Now the Cathedral of Saint-Maurice is recognized as an outstanding architectural structure, in which you can see features inherent in different styles - Romanesque, Gothic, in particular, its rare variety, known as "Anjou Gothic", which originated in Angers and spread in the western part of France in the XII-XIII centuries. 1 reply
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