Located in the heart of the department of Ain, in the municipality of Ars-sur-Formans, the basilica of Ars is a religious building classified as an historic monument. The current building was built in the second half of the nineteenth century on the remains of an old site of the twelfth.
Placed under the patronage of St. Philomena, she welcomed at the end of the 1980s a papal visit of John Paul II. Most visited tourist place of the department, it makes it possible to take refuge on the body exposed in a shrine of the holy priest at the origin of the construction of the basilica of Ars.
Of Gothic and Romanesque inspiration, the building reveals stained glass windows representing eight saints, virgins and martyrs, large statues of stones, as well as beautiful wax paintings.
