Tournus - Eglise de la Madeleine

Tournus not only offers the wonderful Saint-Philibert - and the small eglise Saint-Valérien. There is as well the Eglise de la Madeleine from the 12th century.

Here a darkened capital from the area of the main entrance of the Eglise de la Madeleine. It shows two chimeras, consisting out of a bird´s body (feet and wings), covered with scales instead of feathers, a tail of a snake and a wolf´s mouth. In this mouth a human head! Each!