Église Saint-Michel de La Turbie, Baroque church in La Turbie, France

Église Saint-Michel-Archange is a Catholic church in La Turbie built between 1764 and 1777 from stones taken from the Trophy of Augustus. Its pale tan and grey stone facade has tall flat pilasters, a central wooden double door, a rectangular panel above the door, and a single arched window with blue-tinted panes in the upper tier. Inside, a wide elliptical nave leads to a choir with an apse and hemicycle, flanked by six barrel-vaulted side chapels.

Construction began in 1764 under architect Antoine Spinelli and was completed in 1777 using recycled stones from the nearby Trophy of Augustus. This practice of reusing ancient materials connected the village's new religious center to its Roman past.

The church is dedicated to the Archangel Michael and belongs to the Allegro Baroque Nisso-Ligure tourist route, which links Baroque monuments of the Nice region. Inside, the main altar with mother-of-pearl inlays came from the Abbey of Saint-Pons in Nice and was used for the cult of the goddess Reason during the Revolution.

The church stands inside the public park that surrounds the Trophy of Augustus, and its south side looks out over the bay of Monte-Carlo. The building is a classified historical monument, so the interior can be visited as part of the Allegro Baroque Nisso-Ligure tourist route. The entrance is through the large wooden double door seen in the photograph.

The main altar, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, came from the Abbey of Saint-Pons in Nice and was used for the cult of the goddess Reason during the Revolution. The communion table is made of onyx and agate. Among the furnishings are a Pietà attributed to Bréa, a Saint Mark writing his gospel attributed to Veronese and a Flagellation probably by a pupil of Rembrandt.