Basilique Saint-Martin d'Aime

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La basilica Saint-Martin is a Catholic church located in the commune of Aime-la-Plagne, in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. Presented as a basilica, this Priorial Church is dedicated to Martin de Tours. Built in the 11th century, it was classified as historical monuments in 1875. Disused, it hosts a museum space.

Geography: The church is located in the old town of Aime, now integrated into the new town of Aime-la-Plagne. It was on the ancient Roman way Alpis Graia, which linked Milan in Italy to Vienna in France by the pass of the Petit-Saint-Bernard.

Aime (Axima) was the capital of the Ceutrons. It becomes Forum Claudi Centronum with the Roman occupation and maintains a certain dynamism, in connection with the Roman way Alpis Graia. A first church seems to have been established between the fifth and sixth centuries. The archaeological excavations, led by the tarin architect Étienne-Louis Borrel (1822-1906), between 1868 and 1877, under the basilica, discovered two buildings on which the basilica was built. It is an ancient basilica...