Basilique Saint-Sauveur de Dinan

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The Saint-Sauveur Basilica in Dinan is a Catholic religious building in Dinan, France. It is historically one of the two parish churches of the city, the other being Saint Malo Church. The oldest parts of the building were built in the 12th century.

A reconstruction campaign started in 1480 added to the nave a north side and completely rebuilt the bedside and transept. The upper parts of the façade were also rebuilt. The works had to be interrupted, and the south wall of the nave and the lower parts of the facade remained from the Romanesque church.

This reconstruction campaign is a good indicator of the city's dynamism in the late Middle Ages. The decoration of the radiant chapels, which is one of its fruits, bears witness to the mixed Gothic and Renaissance forms in Brittany at the beginning of the sixteenth century. However, the collapse of the bell tower in 1547 led to modifications of the church, and in particular to renounce the vaulting of the choir, which was covered by a walled structure.

The church has also become a place of Marian devotion to Notre-Dame-des-Vertus, bas-relief of the 15th century.