Cathedral Saint Gatien:

The spectacular Saint Gatien Cathedral was built in Gothic style started in the 13th century and completed in the 16th century. The cathedral with its imposing twin towers, dominates the old city. The interior is strikingly beautiful with its stained glass masterpieces, rose windows, jewels, beautiful chorus and elegant renaissance spiral staircase.

Museum of the Arts Schools:

Within the beautiful gardens of the 17th century Archbishop’s Palace is the museum of the arts schools. It houses a fine collection of French and foreign paintings and furniture from the middle ages. There are two notable altarpieces, 'The Resurrection' and 'Christ in the Olive Grove' by Andrea Mantegna. Works of other artists like Rubens, Rembrandt, Boucher, Delacroix and Degas are also on display.

Basilique Saint Martin Area

The new basilica of St Martin is an extravagant, pseudo-Byzantine church erected between 1886 and 1924. Two towers and a Renaissance cloister are the chief remains of the celebrated old basilica of St Martin built mainly during the 12th and 13th centuries and demolished in 1802. It stood on the site of an earlier and very famous church built from 466 to 472 by bishop St Perpetuus and destroyed together with many other churches in a fire in 998.

Gouin Hotel

Formerly a private mansion of a silk merchant, the 16th-century Hotel Gouin boasts an impressive Renaissance facade and a Romeo-and-Juliet balcony. It houses a museum with collections including Gallo-Roman and medieval archaeology plus medieval, Renaissance and 17th-18th century arts.

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