Collégiale Saint-Salvy (Albi)

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The Collège Saint-Salvi d'Albi is a former collegiate in Albi, southwestern France. The church has a heteroclite aspect, reflecting the evolution of construction modes, mixing Languedoc Romanesque art with Gothic architecture. The caesure between the two styles is also opposed in the materials, stone for the old and red caraine brick for the most recent.

The duration of the project, over nearly seven centuries, was determined by the alternation of fat or thinner periods. The reading of construction is complex for historians, with architectural developments also taking place on the finished parts. The adjacent cloister and the canourgue, a group of former canonian residences, form together with the collegiate, a remarkable ensemble about a hundred meters from the Cathedral of Sainte-Cécile and the Berbie Palace.

They belong to the episcopal city of Albi, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010.