Saint Barthelemy's Church

It was built in 1683. The poor village had great difficulty in having it built, the masons of Sospel were never fully paid and the façade was never completed. The church contains works by the painters of the Basilica of Saint Michel in Menton, which was built shortly before.
The architecture and interior decorations are an example of the Ligurian baroque style of the 17th century. On the same site, traces of a primitive church have been found. Rectangular in plan and oriented east-west, it has a large central nave with three bays, side chapels and a choir with a flat chevet. It has polychrome wooden sculptures and 17th century paintings attributed to Vento, Puppo and Ferrari, who painted the canvases for the Basilica of Saint Michael in Menton, which was built shortly before.

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