Lyon - St Martin-d'Ainay

In Lyons, to the west of Place Ampère, on the site of a Roman temple, is the church of St-Martin-d'Ainay, which originally belonged to a Benedictine abbey founded in the sixth C. The present church, built in the 11th C., is the city's oldest. It contains four antique columns, a 12th C. mosaic pavement in the choir and paintings on a gold ground by the Lyons artist Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-1864) in the apses.