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.

The Gothic choir, "glued" onto the Romanesque nave in the 16th century.