The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Anunciation of Puy-en-Velay is a Aajor monument of Romanesque art and the Christian West. It was erected as a minor basilica by a brief apostolic of Pius IX on February 11. 1856.
A Black Virgin. the object of many pilgrimages over the centuries. sits on a baroque high altar. The current effigy replaces the one that would have been offered by Saint Louis on his return from the crusade of Egypt. and which was burned during the French Revolution.
The cathedral is classified as a historical monument by the list of 1862 (cloister. university. cathedral) as well as a classification in 1889 (buildings of the machicolations)1. It was inscribed in 1998 on the list of World Heritage by UNESCO under the roads of Santiago de Compostela in France.
The cathedral was voted the second favourite monument of the French in 2015 as part of a television show. It is located near the Chapel of Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe. itself voted the 4th favorite monument of the French in 2014. Since May 2017. these two monuments and three others in the vicinity have enjoyed a night illumination show called *Puy de Lumières*. The starting point of via Podiensis.'
