Jesuit Chapel, Carcassonne

The first stone of the chapel was laid in 1640. It is part of the Jesuit college which went through transformations over the years, before being used as "Museum" by Jacques Gamelin, painter and teacher at the Ecole Centrale de l'Aude, which makes it an Exhibition center of paintings. For decades, the chapel fell into oblivion and was in a state of disrepair and neglect, until 2000 when it was remarkably restored in its Baroque elements, with curved coffered ceilings, galleries and balustrades, an octagonal tower and gate; it was given a new cultural life.