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Agen  Cathedral 

Agen, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France
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About Agen  Cathedral 

Agen Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral situated in Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France. It is devoted to Saint Caprasius. It was worked in the 12th century as a university church and is an UNESCO World Heritage Site. The cathedral was recorded as a notable landmark in 1863. Situated on one of four explorers ways towards Santiago de Compostela, Spain, its World Heritage Site status falls under the class of Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France.

Agen Cathedral's noticeable structure goes back to the 12th century, when it was worked as a university church of ordinances committed to Saint Caprasius of Agen, on the establishments of a basilica sacked by the Normans in 853 however from that point reestablished. In 1998 this landmark along the World Heritage Site course was among the initial 75 assigned, with three after the year after. Interesting building highlights incorporate the Romanesque apse which is reached out by a Gothic casing along a solitary nave. Supplanting an old wooden chime tower, the present pinnacle was worked in 1835 at the command of Bishop Levezou de Vezins and has the quirk of being made out of three Gothic styles, inquisitively exhibited backward sequential request, rising. The cathedral's nave is a lot shorter than may be normal making a decision from the extent of the chance, this was the outcome of before political and money related challenges.

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