Église de Saint-Julien du Tournel

The church of Saint Julien the Tournel is an austere building, gray stone, in the foothills powerful, emerging only the tops of the trees that appear to protect the village from prying eyes ...

On the banks of the Lot, a few miles of Mende, the village of Saint Julien the Tournel formed around the castle belonging to one of the most powerful houses of France in the thirteenth century which had made the little church where they burial to the fifteenth century.

Built in the thirteenth is a small church of Romanesque architecture, style, stripped, and the imposing bell-comb 2-bay much later. Impression reinforced by the severity of head almost entirely devoid of pentagonal openings ...

In addition to its architecture, the church of Saint Julien the Tournel is remarkable for the remains of wall paintings that covered the inside.