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Unfortunately not open to visitors...would require emergency safeguard measures

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The modest Saint-Fiacre church in Lugny-Champagne does not offer any remarkable architectural features and therefore does not benefit from any legal protection. Its plan is of elementary simplicity: a rectangular nave opening onto a slightly narrower choir with a rounded chevet. The whole is covered with a wooden ceiling forming a pointed barrel vault and concealing a modern cement vault (around 1890). The profiles of all the openings (western portal, windows, triumphal arch) are pointed arches; frail engaged colonnettes topped with small hooked capitals receive the legs of the roof trusses. This curious, and apparently ancient, arrangement is completed by an interior cornice which thus connects and crowns all these false bays. All these details taken together place the construction in the late 13th century. Among the furnishings of this small church, we notice an 18th century altarpiece, a 17th century foundation plaque, a 16th century stone holy water font base. and above all a very rare cast iron holy water font, bearing a cast inscription that dates it from 1494 and attributes it to the master blacksmith of the nearby mill of La Motte-Cochon, a precious testimony to an early metallurgical activity in the region. The framework has been reworked and reinforced several times over the ages. It constitutes the weak point of the building; during the summer of 1996, the ridge beam once again bent, producing disorders at the top of the walls. An emergency intervention aimed to consolidate the framework. The Sauvegarde de l’Art Français contributed 35,000 F in 1997.

Impossible to miss this beautiful church all alone at the end of this grassy path. Its history echoes the construction of the Notre-Dame de Fourvières basilica in 1870 following the wish of the Lyonnais to build it if the Prussians do not cross the Saône. Indeed, Claude Gindre, the owner of the Château de Laverdines since 1860, is a silk worker from Lyon and makes a similar wish concerning the Vauvise valley. He kept his promise in 1873 by having this chapel dedicated to the Virgin built, but outside the castle grounds so that all the villagers could have access to it. A replica of the Virgin Mary which crowns the Lyon basilica was initially on its roof and is today preserved on the ground, next to the church. It was bought by the municipality in 1893 for a symbolic franc and then work was undertaken with the help of the heritage foundation between 2016 and 2019 in order to repair significant external damage. Behind the gate on the other side of the road, you can see Laverdines Castle in the distance.

Built in 1460, the castle of Menetou-Couture impresses with its height: 38 meters. Today, only the keep and a tower housing a chapel remain. The park is home to century-old trees. The castle and its park can be visited, with a guide, for € 6 per adult. More information on https://www.berryprovince.com/patrimoine-culturel/chateau-de-menetou-couture-menetou-couture/

The Templar Commandery of Bordes, the first traces of which date from 1170, is classified as a French heritage. From 1312, it was devolved to the order of the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem. The chapel, still visible today, dates from the end of the 13th century.

The Laverdines Church having been destroyed, the village no longer had a parish. During the invasion of Prussia in 1870, Claude Gindre, then owner of the castle of Laverdines, promised to build a chapel if Prussia did not cross the Loire. The promise was kept with the construction from 1873 to 1875 of this chapel, ceded to the state for a symbolic Franc in 1983. It is well maintained, and is located right next to the Castle of the same name, which cannot be visited.