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SAINT GENES CHURCH

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BENQUE-DESSOUS-ET-DESSUS

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Listed as a Historic Monument.

Saint-Geniès Church, a 12th-century Romanesque building remodelled in the 17th century. The interior décor is protected. Listed in 1985.

A number of funerary stones are used as replacements on the south facade of the church.

Two of them are classified as historic monuments. The interior of the church features a Romanesque font sculpted with medallions and 16th-century frescoes, in particular two representations of Herodias (or Salome) and Saint John the Baptist, which frame the chancel surmounted by the dove of the Holy Spirit.

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