Eglise Saint-Christophe de Vianne

The church of Saint-Christophe was built in the 12th century according to tradition by the Templars, at a time before the foundation of the bastide. The only existing monument of the old village Villelongue, the church symbolizes the link between Villelongue and the Bastide of Vianne
The church was once annexed to a priory, destroyed during the French Revolution, whose buildings were located between the church and the ramparts of the bastide. It belonged to the Benedictine monks of Cluny until 1395, then to the monks of La Sauve.
The church, in the purest Romanesque style, with its decoration of capitals inspired by the priory of Moirax, was enlarged in the 14th century by the addition of a bay and a Gothic portal to the west and a chapel to the north. The murals were painted in 1856 by Tarlas. Classified as a Historic Monument in 1889, the church was then restored in 1910.