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Founded in the mid-12th century by the powerful Moissac Abbey, the Notre-Dame priory church, in the center of the village, was rebuilt in brick around 1230 and enlarged to also serve as a parish church at the request of the Dominican inquisitors. Rectangular in plan, modeled after Toulouse Cathedral, the single nave comprises four bays with ribbed vaults.

The vast portal reuses the eight marble columns and capitals from the 12th-century church.

In 1318, the Archbishop of Compostela consecrated a new chancel.

It consists of a straight bay and a five-sided polygonal apse flanked by chapels surmounted by a triforium, unique in the Toulouse region.

The interior of the building is entirely covered with murals dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries, which were discovered and restored between 1855 and 1865. The Church of Notre-Dame du Bourg is the finest example of the originality of southern Gothic architecture.

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