St John the Baptist Church, Laon, France

One of the oldest churches in the Laon is St John the Baptist, in the nearby neighborhood of Vaux-sous-Laon, which dates from the 11th through 13th centuries and is built in a mixture of Romanesque and Gothic styles.

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Volodymyr Kravchenko (4 years ago)
Histórico , turístico

Jean-Marie Devoucoux (4 years ago)
Church very bright

Danièle Danièle (4 years ago)
Possible in wheelchair ... super priest

Oxitrone [ӾøŁ] (5 years ago)
small church that produces EXORBITANT amounts in euros. SCAM.

papijean40 Jean-Marie (7 years ago)
The most beautiful church in France ... a little chauvinistic: it's all my youth!

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