Abbaye St-Pierre

Moissac's UNESCO-listed abbey church is built from a curious mixture of brick, stone and wood cladding. Its Gothic interior was restored in the 1960s to recreate the original wallpaper-like paintwork and contains some superb 15th-century religious art, notably the Mise au Tombeau, a large polychrome wooden sculpture of Jesus' body being placed in the tomb. Much older is the exterior of the south portal with its striking frieze of St John's vision of the apocalypse.