Editing Nevers (section)

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[[File:F06.Nevers.Palais Ducal.1161.JPG|thumb|left|250px|The [[Palais ducal de Nevers|Ducal Palace of Nevers]], in France]]
[[File:Saint Bernadette's incorrupt body.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The incorrupt body of [[Bernadette Soubirous|Saint Bernadette]], seer of [[Our Lady of Lourdes]] apparitions]]
Narrow winding streets lead from the quay through the town where there are numerous old houses dating from the 14th to the 17th century.<ref name=EB1911/>

Among the ecclesiastical buildings the most important is the [[Cathédrale Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte de Nevers|Cathédrale of Saint Cyr-Sainte Julitte]], dedicated to [[Saint Quiricus and Saint Julietta]], which is a combination of two buildings, and possesses two [[apse]]s. The apse and transept at the west end are the remains of a [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] church, while the nave and eastern apse are in the [[Gothic architecture|Gothic style]] and belong to the 14th century. There is no transept at the eastern end. The lateral portal on the south side belongs to the late 15th century; the massive and elaborately decorated tower which rises beside it dates to the early 16th century.<ref name=EB1911/>

The church of ''Saint Étienne'' is a specimen of the Romanesque style of [[Auvergne (province)|Auvergne]] of which the disposition of the apse with its three radiating chapels is characteristic. It was consecrated at the close of the 9th century, and belonged to a priory affiliated to [[Cluny]].<ref name=EB1911/>

The [[Palais ducal de Nevers|Ducal Palace]] (now occupied by the courts of justice and an important ceramic museum) was built in the 15th and 16th centuries and is one of the principal feudal edifices in central France. The façade is flanked at each end by a [[Turret (architecture)|turret]] and a round tower. A middle tower containing the great staircase has its windows adorned by sculptures relating to the history of the [[House of La Marck]] by the members of which the greater part of the palace was built.<ref name=EB1911/>

Behind the palace lies an open space with a fine view over the [[Loire Valley]]. The Porte du Croux, a square tower, with corner turrets, dating from the end of the 14th century, is among the remnants of the old fortifications; it now contains a collection of sculptures and Roman antiquities.<ref name=EB1911/>

A [[triumphal arch]] from the 18th century, commemorating the victory of [[Battle of Fontenoy (1745)|Fontenoy]] and the hôtel de ville, a 19th-century building which contains the library, are of some interest.<ref>{{Base Mérimée|PA00125321|Hôtel de ville}}</ref> The Loire is crossed by a modern stone bridge, and by an iron railway bridge.<ref name=EB1911/>

At the [[Espace Bernadette Soubirous Nevers|Chapel of Saint Bernadette]] at the mother house of the [[Sisters of Charity of Nevers]], it is possible to view the incorrupt body of [[Bernadette Soubirous|Saint Bernadette Soubirous]], the famous seer of [[Our Lady of Lourdes]] apparitions, which are presented in a gold and crystal reliquary.