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Châteauroux · Centre-Val de Loire
In the heart of the station district of Châteauroux, this house houses an exceptional dormer window designed by a Compagnon du Devoir: a masterpiece of carpentry with pagoda roofs and symbolic letters engraved in the zinc.
Lavardin · Centre-Val de Loire
Crossing the Loir at Lavardin, this 15th-century medieval bridge displays its pointed arches with understated elegance, providing a picturesque backdrop to one of France's most beautiful villages.
Sennevières · Centre-Val de Loire
A six-sided stone sentinel, this 18th-century pyramid watched over the royal hunting grounds in Touraine. Its unique hexagonal plan sets it apart from its three sisters scattered around the Liget forest.
Clémont · Centre-Val de Loire
A discreet brick jewel in the Berry region, Château de Lauroy boasts sober, elegant Louis XIV architecture set in the Cher hedgerows, with an intact north facade of rare authenticity.
Azay-sur-Cher · Centre-Val de Loire
An elegant 18th-century château nestling in the Touraine region, Leugny boasts a refined neoclassical façade designed by one of Gabriel's collaborators, adorned with bracketed entablatures featuring unique floral motifs.
Paulmy · Centre-Val de Loire
A Neolithic vestige in the heart of southern Touraine, the Pierre Chaude de Paulmy is a dolmen that has been listed as a Historic Monument since 1911, a silent witness to five millennia of human history.
Montoire-sur-le-Loir · Centre-Val de Loire
In the heart of Montoire-sur-le-Loir, the Maison Taillebois reveals the grace of the French Renaissance: chiselled Corinthian pilasters and a brick chimney stack crowned with carved stone, a jewel of the 16th century.
Ladon · Centre-Val de Loire
In the heart of the Gâtinais region, the Ladon market unfurls its 17th-century wooden framework beneath an elegant roof-light crowned by an octagonal bell tower - a rural gem of Old Regime market architecture.
La Ferté-Imbault · Centre-Val de Loire
A discreet jewel of the Loir-et-Cher region, the Saint-Thaurin chapel in La Ferté-Imbault contains the seigniorial heritage of the d'Etampes family, built in the 17th century on the ashes of a medieval collegiate church ravaged by fire.
Thésée · Centre-Val de Loire
A jewel of 19th-century hydraulic engineering, the Mazelles needle dam embodies the triumphant industrial age: the European prototype of a technology that crossed the Atlantic to Ohio.
Pellevoisin · Centre-Val de Loire
A medieval sentinel in the Berry region transformed by the Grand Siècle, Château du Mée combines machicolated towers from the Hundred Years' War with the sober classical elegance of the 18th century.
La Châtre · Centre-Val de Loire
The only vestige of the powerful barony of La Châtre, this 15th-century medieval tower has four floors punctuated by fireplaces and served by a spiral staircase - before being converted into a prison during the Age of Enlightenment.
Pocé-sur-Cisse · Centre-Val de Loire
On the outskirts of Amboise, this late 15th-century château boasts corbelled turrets and a parapet walk facing English-style parkland adorned with cast-iron sculptures inherited from a singular industrial past.
Argenton-sur-Creuse · Centre-Val de Loire
A discreet Renaissance gem in the Berry region, the Saint-Benoît chapel in Argenton-sur-Creuse conceals behind its sober 16th-century façade an eventful past, from collegiate sanctuary to revolutionary granary.
Dun-sur-Auron · Centre-Val de Loire
In the heart of Dun-sur-Auron, this doorway to a 17th-century town house, the remains of a notary's dwelling, reveals the discreet elegance of classic Berrichonne civil architecture.
Mesland · Centre-Val de Loire
Unique in the Loir-et-Cher region, this barn belonging to Château de Monteaux conceals a Philibert de l'Orme-style roof structure of rare sophistication, heir to a building tradition with Flemish accents.
Le Pont-Chrétien-Chabenet · Centre-Val de Loire
The only one of its kind in France, this all-wooden covered bridge spans the Bouzanne river in the Berry region. With its triangular framework and planks joined together by bull's eyes, it is an architectural curiosity that has been listed as a Historic Monument.
Saint-Georges-sur-Moulon · Centre-Val de Loire
A stone sentinel since the Neolithic period in the heart of Berry, the Pierre à la Femme at Saint-Georges-sur-Moulon is one of the most evocative menhirs in the Cher, steeped in legend and listed as a Historic Monument in 1889.
Gien · Centre-Val de Loire
A jewel of post-war reconstruction in Gien, this hospital chapel combines 1950s architecture and André Trébuchet's pictorial decoration in a unique ensemble that was listed as a Historic Monument in 2022.
Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre · Centre-Val de Loire
A medieval relic from the end of the Hundred Years' War, the Porte du Marché (Market Gate) in Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre features a square pavilion pierced by two elegant tiers-point windows, a silent witness to the ambitions of Jean II de Brosse.
Olivet · Centre-Val de Loire
On the outskirts of Orléans, Château du Rondon combines the elegance of a 17th-century estate, parkland attributed to Le Nôtre and a stone balustrade majestically overlooking the waters of the Loire.
Boursay · Centre-Val de Loire
In the heart of the Vendôme region, Saint-Pierre de Boursay church is home to a little-known treasure: 14th-century murals depicting Heaven and Hell with striking dramatic force.
Vichères · Centre-Val de Loire
A Renaissance sentinel in the heart of the Perche region of Chartres, the Manor de la Manorière's circular towers and mullioned windows are set against a backdrop of secular silence, with its monumental staircase and 16th-century fireplaces intact.
Sazilly · Centre-Val de Loire
Nestling in the vineyards of the Chinon region, the church of Saint-Hilaire de Sazilly boasts strikingly sober Romanesque Touraine architecture, listed as a Historic Monument in 1926 for the purity of its medieval volumes.
