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Built on the left bank of the river Tâmega, along a major thoroughfare linking the coast line to the interior of the river Douro, the Church of Saint Nicholas of Canaveses was founded after 1320. The main portal attests this late chronology: absence of columns and capitals. The entire building is devoid of ornamentation, thereby enhancing the later character of its so-called "românico de resistência" [resistance Romanesque]. Of modest dimensions, it was subjected to deep changes in the Modern Era marked by the opening of large rectangular windows in the chancel and in the nave. Also, the triumphal arches and the baptistery, in a classical language, were the work of this period. Inside, granite ornaments prevail, although, given the existing traces, as the Middle Ages gave way to the Modern Era, the Church may have been coated with frescoes, as shown by the examples preserved. Accidentally discovered in 1973, today some panels with depictions of Saint Anthony and fragments of an Annunciation remain, on the north wall of the nave, a Benedictine saint, Saint Catherine of Alexandria and another Annunciation, on the south wall of the nave.

Situated in the middle of the high street of this leading Ardennes tourist town, the church is Neo- gothic, built in 1900. It was damaged in 1945 but has been restored well. Unusually, and worth mentioning, is the permanent background music which hospitably welcomes those who enter the church. Numerous stained glass windows dating from 1980 diffuse warm colours inside.

The church of St. Nicholas (Agios Nikolaos) is located in the Katholiko Bay of Agios Nikolaos. It is one of the oldest churches in Crete, founded in the 7th century.

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Agios Nikolaos is an Orthodox church, ortinally built as a monastery church in the 14th century. During the Ottoman occupation of Crete, the church was transformed into a mosque. In 1928, it was transformed again into a church. It is the only church in Greece with both a bell tower and a minaret.

The Church of St. Nicholas (Agios Nikolaos) in Elenes is a two-nave church with 13th century frescoes.

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The present church was built in 1748 and rebuilt in 1952 after the Battle of the Ardennes in 1944-45. Originally, it was the convent church of the convent of Augustinian nuns, a monastery for the daughters of the noble families of the Ardennes.

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The church of Saint Nicholas (Agios Nikolaos) in Maza is a single nave chapel with a vaulted ceiling and frescoes painted by Ioannis Pagomenos, a well-known artist from Crete who decorated many rural Orthodox churches during the Venetian rule in Crete (1205–1669).