The best walks and hikes around Billens-Hennens

A beautiful castle, with free access to the battlements. Inside is the Glass Museum and a café.

Very beautiful city to visit

The Church of Saint-Pierre-aux-liens (1937-1939), designed by architect Fernand Dumas, is one of the major buildings of the Saint-Luc Group and a testament to its ambitions to revive sacred art. The architect planned the almost exclusive use of glass for the interior design. The altars, communion table, pulpit, and chandeliers were made by the Labouret workshop in Paris, which, along with glassmakers François Décorchemont and Félix Gaudin, invented the glass slab (1928). The church choir is adorned with a vast composition by Emilio Maria Beretta that covers the entire wall of the flat chevet. This glass painting depicts the deliverance of Saint Peter by an angel who frees him from prison. The non-figurative stained-glass windows were designed by Yoki (alias Émile Aebischer) and created in collaboration with glassmaker Michel Eltschinger. They used two different techniques: the rose window of the gallery (1969) is made of glass slabs, while the stained-glass windows of the nave are made of lead mesh, of variable width (1979).

The abbey "La Fille-Dieu" is a place of silence and prayer. It is located directly on the Way of St. James. Even today, some nuns still live in the monastery and practice their faith here. The Benedictine nuns have been at home here continuously since 1268. Important! The religious community is happy to offer travelers accommodation and sells homemade delicacies in the monastery shop. This includes an aromatic honey mustard that is made according to an old recipe found in the monastery. While the nuns hold their devotions in the church, it is open to the public. Silence and respect are the top priority.

Beautiful area, rural, great.

Reminiscent of Friborg Cathedral, but smaller.

then let's look at glass, why not? It's just a shame that the castle's rooms not only fade into the background, but largely disappear

The Collegiate Church of Romont dates from the 13th and 15th centuries. It is dedicated to the Virgin of the Assumption. It is in the choir that the stalls are located, a series of wooden seats reserved for members of the clergy, who were numerous at the time. The first church of Romont was consecrated in the 13th century. Destroyed by fire in the 15th century, it was immediately rebuilt, in molasse*, in a flamboyant Gothic style. It is dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption. Every Good Friday at 3 p.m. in Romont, the procession of the Mourners takes place, a tradition widely relayed by the media and which brings together Romont residents and visitors, believers or laypeople. It commemorates the Passion of Christ by referencing the compassion of the women of Jerusalem along the route to Mount Golgotha.