Albi - St Salvi

In Albi, the church of St-Salvi, built on the foundations of a Carolingian church, and the monastery to which it belonged were begun in the 11th C, but the work was interrupted by the Albigensian wars and continued into the 13th C. A number of capitals and the small apses in the choir still date from the Romanesque period. The lower part of the tower dates from the 11th C, the upper part, which shows Gothic influence, from the 14th. The cloister was added in the 13th C.