Bell towers quarrel...

A quarrel of bell towers in town! In a medieval society where the Church was very powerful, the cathedral, along with the Pey-Berland tower, set the tone. It symbolised the power of the Archbishopric of Bordeaux, of which it was the seat!

But Saint-André had many "rivals". To the north, the Basilica of Saint-Seurin has a crypt that houses an ancient cemetery, the necropolis of the first Christians in Bordeaux : this is the primitive church of Bordeaux. In old Bordeaux, the church of Saint-Eloi was the parish of the jurade (the assembly that governed the city). Adjoining the "Grosse Cloche", it stands next to a gate in the rampart that protected the city.