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This 19th century church was constructed when the expanding city required somewhere larger to house the congregation.
Paul Abadie is responsible for its Neo-Gothic design and its 80 metre high steeple. Inside there are beautiful paintings of the worship of the Magi and the worship of the Shepherds.
The Saint-Jacques church sits at the top of a lovely square overlooking the historic centre of the city.
First built in the 12th century as a chapel on the pilgrim route to Compostela, it is essentially a Romanesque church but was enlarged in the 13th century when it became the medieval town's church. It has undergone many alterations over the centuries and the nave was completely rebuilt in the 18th century.
In the 19th-century it was deemed too small for its large congregation and a new church, the Eglise Notre Dame, was built and consecrated in 1865. St Jacques, however, far from being abandoned was renovated.