Ligny-le-Châtel - Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul

A Merovingian necropolis, containing 173 tombs, was discovered and excavated around 2000. It was located near a convent, dependent of the monastery Saint-Michel de Tonnerre, known since 814. The monastery here got completely destroyed during the Hundred Years War.

Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul is the parish church of Ligny-le-Châtel. There is a contrast between the nave and the choir, from the point of view of style and construction dates.

Nave and the Romanesque bell tower are a construction of the 12the century. Between 1556 and 1610 the Gothic choir came to replace the old Romanesque one in a late Gothic style. Over the years, the church got pillaged and burnt down several times, and had to be rebuilt several times.