Abbeys, churches, chapels, basilicas, collegiate churches, convents, priories, hermitages, monasteries… it’s difficult to do a brief overview of the ecclesiastical buildings in the Vosges (even more so because there also the calvaries and wayside crosses to take into consideration)!
	There are several dozen that it’s worth going out of your way to see. In fact, that’s an advantage: you scarcely have to go out of your way, wherever you are in the department, there will be one worth looking at close by!

Amongst those that are most visited, the « musts » are without doubt the abbeys in the Rabodeau valley and the former principality of Salm and the Bois Chenu Basilica built at the place where Joan of Arc heard her famous "voices"; but there are many others worth seeing for their architectural beauty.



For example:

The former abbey church in St-Maur de Bleurville,
Website: http://membres.lycos.fr/saonelorraineassocia/
The romanesque St George’s Church in Bouzemont
The romanesque Church of the Assumption, built in red sandstone, in Champ-le-Duc,
Website: www.ot-bruyeres.fr
The St-Epvre Church in Contrexéville, with its 12th century bell-tower, a listed Historic Monument,
Website: www.contrex-minceur.com
The Cistercian Abbey in Droiteval
(this is a private site)
The St-Maurice Basilica, its old Chapter quarter and clergy houses;
Notre-Dame-au-Cierge Church,
a contemporary style church building in Epinal,
Website: www.ville-epinal.fr
The Les Prémontrés Abbey Church in Etival-Clairefontaine,
built in the 7th century,
Website: www.paysdesabbayes.com
The Sainte Libaire Church in Grand,
Website: www.vosges.fr
The Cordeliers Convent and the two churches in Les Thons
(also the superb feudal pigeon loft).
An interesting point: the right wing of the les Thons stately home was bought by a rich American just after the First World War. He had it dismantled and then rebuilt in the New York suburbs.
Notre-Dame Church and Chapelle de la Oultre in Mirecourt,
Website: www.ville-mirecourt.fr
The priory church and a remarkable polychrome wooden sculpture of the Dead Christ in the tomb, in Monthureux-sur-Saône
St Hydulphe abbey church and the former abbey buildings in Moyenmoutier,
Website: www.paysdesabbayes.com
St. Nicolas and St.Christophe churches in Neufchâteau
(where there is also a very elegant Renaissance town hall),
Website : www.neufchateau-tourisme.com
Romanesque portal of St Martin’s church in Pompierre, with its sculptured tympanum
Notre-Dame Church in Relanges
The St-Pierre abbey church in Remiremont, and its crypt
listed as being one of the oldest buildings in Lorraine
An interesting point: the houses with archways in the Rue Charles de Gaulle and the Abbey Palace, Internet site: www.ot-remiremont.fr
Saint Déodat’s Cathedral, with its gothic cloister,
The romanesque Notre-Dame-de-Galilée church in St-Dié-des-Vosges,
Website: www.ville-saintdie.fr
The former abbey church and cloister in Senones,
the former capital of the Principality of Salm-Salm,
Website: www.paysdesabbayes.com