The Chapel of the White Penitents

The Chapel of the White Penitents was built on the north-east rampart at the end of the 16th century by the ‘Pénitents Blancs du Saint Esprit’ brotherhood (a Catholic lay brotherhood). Its mid-18th-century bell tower, offset from the axis of the nave, and the use of one of the old surrounding towers as a sacristy, give it a surprising architectural style.

Abandoned and ruined at the end of the 19th century, it was restored in the 20th century.

Since 1967, it has housed the Maurice...