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Religious heritage · Allier
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Moulins
Built at the end of the Middle Ages on the site of a 10th-century chapel, the cathedral of Moulins, in the Allier, was first the collegiate church of the dukes of Bourbon before becoming the seat of the diocese in the 19th century. Its Neo-Gothic spires, added during the 19th-century restoration, rise 88 metres above the town.
Its Gothic choir holds one of the treasures of French painting: the Moulins triptych, attributed to the mysterious Master of Moulins (probably Jean Hey) and commissioned around 1500 by Duke Pierre II de Bourbon. The cathedral's Renaissance stained glass is also among the finest in the region.
