Church of Saint Sornin

Eglise Saint Sornin is a listed monument from the 15th century, it now houses the Musée des Mariniers.

The old Saint-Sornin church, dating from the 12th century, retains a chestnut frame (14th century), built as a "bottom of the boat", certainly by sailors. Updated early 21st century paintings adorn the walls of the church (some from the 14th century). This former church now houses a museum, with sailors' crosses, former nautical jousting breastplates, as well as various tools used by the sailors of the Rhône. In one wing of the church-museum are the "mandulons". These are hundreds of bones including 4 mummified bodies, here since the 17th century. For a long time the mystery hovered over these bodies. Victims of epidemics? Religious Wars? It would seem that in fact these bones come from a common grave, whose former "occupants" were stored there. The mummified bodies would have been deceased transferred here, because the cemetery was submerged by a flood of the Rhone. The particular hydrometry of this place would have allowed a natural mummification of these corpses.