Built between the thirteenth and sixteenth century church of St. Peter Caen replaces an old Romanesque church of the twelfth century. A fine example of Gothic art mixture, beaming and Renaissance Gothic, is the subject for several years of successive restoration campaigns that have given their brightness and whiteness with stone facades Caen.
In addition to its incredible tower of the fourteenth century more than eighty meters high, it reveals an abundance of chapels incredible stone sculptures. The building also has the peculiarity of having a nave two parts of the thirteenth and fourteenth century.
Transform Reason Temple in 1793 following the events of the French Revolution, she knows some destruction during the bombing of World War II in 1944 before undergoing reconstruction bell tower and the roof in the 1950s.
Inside, difficult not to succumb to the charm carved capitals of the third pillar of the nave reveals scenes from medieval romances of chivalry. Neo-Gothic carved wooden pulpit of the nineteenth century also deserves special attention, as the old windows with modern and flamboyant colors. Facing the impressive Duke William the Conqueror's castle, the church Saint-Pierre holds a place very special in the historic center of the capital of Normandy.