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Åmotsdal church is a wooden church that was built in 1792. The architect of the church is Jarand Aasmundson Rønjom.

Åna-Sira church was built of wood in 1888. The architect of the church is the famous Norwegian architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan.

Anagni Cathedral dates back to the 11th century. The town of Agnani was one of the secondary centres of the papacy from the 11th century and remained so until the 13th century. The construction of the cathedral, decided by Bishop Pietro da Salerno, began in 1071 on the site of the ancient acropolis where a previous cathedral dating back to the High Middle Ages had already been built. It was essentially completed in 11053 and then, during the 13th century, underwent various stylistic modifications in the Gothic style, particularly the central nave and the apse.

Benedictine abbey founded in 1168 by a knight. The monastery buildings have just been added between the 13th and 18th centuries. It finally closed in 1781, then served as an agricultural reserve and quarry before being listed in 1915.

The Abbey was built in the 12th century, and additions were made little by little between the 13th and 17th centuries.

The huge 18th century abbey church became the new cathedral of Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Vaast d'Arras in 1804. It replaced the old Gothic cathedral Notre-Dame-en-Cité in the west of the city which was destroyed, and since 1825 the vast monastery buildings of the abbey have housed the Arras Fine Arts Museum.

According to tradition the abbey was founded under the name of Saint-Vincent in 589 by Queen Brunehaut. The abbey has suffered several destructions in its history, the last of which took place in the 19th century.

This abbey was founded in 1138 by the Earl of Pallars, for his own son who became the leader of the abbey. A few years later, the abbey welcomeed Louis VII, on his way to Compostela. The 14th century turned out to be very prosperous for the abbey, which accommodated at this time close to a hundred monks of the order of the Prémontrés. The 15th century saw the decline of the abbey, which experienced a succession of events: the Black Death, the Hundred Years War and then the wars of religion. The Revolution also affected the abbey, which was pillaged, burnt down and finally sold in 1791.

The Carmelites acquired a piece of land in 1620, at the "Riez du château", near the new walls of the Porte de Gand, in order to establish their convent there. The church was completed in 1623, but was destroyed by fire in 1645. The present church was rebuilt between 1646 and 1669.

The monastery is the only establishment of the Carthusian order in Auvergne. Today in ruins, it nevertheless preserves particularly interesting remains and constitutes an essential milestone in the understanding of the evolution of the architecture of the Carthusian order.