Located Tarascon, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, the St. Martha Church is a Provençal Romanesque building built between the eleventh and the twelfth century. Old Royal Collegiate, it consists of two superimposed churches and a crypt. The upper church has undergone many changes in the fourteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, leaving very little Romanesque elements of origins like the crypt of some walls and gate.
In the crypt of the seventeenth century, it is possible to discover the ancient sarcophagus containing the relics of St. Martha and that was long a place of pilgrimage. The Gothic church is itself built on a three naves and reveals a beautiful floral decoration in its interior. Between the foothills, you can admire the side chapels, the oldest dating back to the fourteenth century. Difficult to resist the organ restored Boisselin Moitessier-nineteenth century and has one of the best buffets in Provence. Inside, several paintings and an altarpiece of the fifteenth century attract attention.
The entire St. Martha Church is classified as an historic monument.
