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Chapelon · Centre-Val de Loire

Moulin à vent dit Moulin de Gaillardin

A discreet survivor of the Gâtinais milling era, the Moulin de Gaillardin in Chapelon still retains its original wooden mechanism - an absolute rarity among French mills.

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Châtenoy · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de la Rivière

Nestling in the Loiret region, Château de la Rivière boasts pink brickwork and pepperpot towers set in a moat. A Renaissance and Henri IV jewel built by a great servant of the crown.

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Chemillé-sur-Dême · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison du 16e siècle

Set in the heart of the Dême valley, this 16th-century Renaissance house boasts two majestic gable roof dormers adorned with sculpted decoration of rare elegance for a Touraine civil building.

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Dun-sur-Auron · Centre-Val de Loire

Domaine de la Périsse

On the edge of the Berry region, this discreet 18th-century farming estate hides a centuries-old history: sheepfolds dating back to 1781, the seigniorial dwelling and rural outbuildings form an attractive ensemble listed as a Historic Monument.

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Luynes · Centre-Val de Loire

La Mignonnerie

An 18th-century Loire residence nestling in Luynes, La Mignonnerie boasts an elegant façade that embodies the social rise of an Empire officer. A rare architectural testimony to bourgeois ambition in the Loire Valley.

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Pontlevoy · Centre-Val de Loire

Château des Bordes

Set in the heart of the Loire Valley, Château des Bordes boasts 18th-century elegance enhanced by a fascinating neo-Rocaille décor, the work of architect Louis-Denis Le Camus.

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Champigny-sur-Veude · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de la Pataudière

A Renaissance fortress with five adjoining pavilions, Château de la Pataudière retains its original defensive features - fire hydrants, hopper embrasures - in an unusual Touraine setting that was transformed into a zoo in the 20th century.

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Baccon · Centre-Val de Loire

Tumulus n° 10

A silent sentinel of the Loirétaine plain, this protohistoric tumulus at Baccon conceals beneath its earthy mass the secret of an aristocratic burial site dating back more than two millennia.

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Panzoult · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancien château de Roncée

In the heart of the Touraine wine-growing region, the Roncée dovecote unfurls its elegant hexagonal silhouette crowned by a stone dome - a Renaissance jewel listed as a Historic Monument in 1924.

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Beaulieu-lès-Loches · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancienne église Saint-Laurent

The Romanesque-Angelesque jewel of Beaulieu-lès-Loches, the former church of Saint-Laurent boasts characteristic Plantagenet-style vaulted ceilings and a sober, square 12th-century bell tower, bearing witness to a remarkably well-preserved medieval past.

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Lavardin · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison dite de Florent Tissart

In Lavardin, the Florent Tissart house combines medieval stone and Renaissance loggia in a rare architectural dialogue: Gothic watchtower on the façade, elegant arcatures and colonnettes on the courtyard.

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Autheuil · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Avit

In Autheuil, the church of Saint-Avit boasts a Renaissance portal of rare elegance, framed by pilasters and composite capitals, the legacy of a thousand-year-old parish that was once linked to Saint-Lomer Abbey in Blois.

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Coulombs · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison

Erected by Sully in Nogent in 1610, this imposing sandstone gateway is a rare example of Henrician civil architecture. It has been moved to Coulombs and is now a listed building.

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Crissay-sur-Manse · Centre-Val de Loire

Croix du cimetière

In the heart of the cemetery at Crissay-sur-Manse, this 17th-century cross, with its palmette branches inspired by the Jerusalem cross, bears witness to the rare precision of the craftsmen who cut it from Touraine stone.

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Anché · Centre-Val de Loire

Manoir du Bois de Veude

In the heart of medieval Touraine, the manor house of Bois de Veude boasts a Renaissance dwelling and octagonal stair tower set in a green setting, the silent guardian of a six-century-old chapel.

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Bourges · Centre-Val de Loire

Immeuble de l'entreprise Leiseing

A neo-classical jewel from the inter-war years in Bourges, this 1930 building with its colossal pilasters embodies the architectural modernity of a pivotal period - and conceals a dark past under the Occupation.

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Argent-sur-Sauldre · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-André

A stone witness to the medieval nobility of Berry, Saint-André church in Argent-sur-Sauldre blends 13th-century Gothic sobriety with 15th-century flamboyant elegance, built for the great families of Sully and Albret.

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Joué-lès-Tours · Centre-Val de Loire

Manoir de la Mazeraie

Nestling on the outskirts of Tours, the Mazeraie manor house boasts a classical courtyard and a Renaissance fireplace featuring Diana in the bath - a mythological jewel rescued from the Rothière manor house.

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Châteauroux · Centre-Val de Loire

Immeuble à lucarne de type compagnonnique

In Châteauroux, three buildings in the rue de la Gare conceal under their roofs masterpieces of Compagnonnique carpentry by Hippolyte Moreau, known as Berry-la-Conscience - the wooden testament of a master of the Tour de France.

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Fontenay · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Etienne

In Fontenay, the church of Saint-Étienne conceals a Renaissance treasure: a 16th-century seigneurial tomb with a striking macabre iconography, perpetuating seven centuries of funerary memory in a neo-Gothic setting.

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Tours · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame-la-Riche

In the heart of Tours, Notre-Dame-la-Riche reveals a rare blend of flamboyant Touraine Gothic and Victorian restoration, in a church closely associated with Jean Fouquet, the genius of French medieval painting.

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Vierzon · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison

In the heart of Vierzon, this 15th-century timber-framed house epitomises medieval civil architecture in the Berry region, with its stone base and majestic carved brackets supporting the first floor.

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Joué-lès-Tours · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Beaulieu

An elegant eighteenth-century château nestling in Joué-lès-Tours, Beaulieu captivates visitors with its double architecture and flats adorned with refined interior decoration inherited from the nineteenth century.

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Sandillon · Centre-Val de Loire

Domaine de La Porte (également sur commune de Saint-Cyr-en-Val)

In the heart of the Loire Valley, the Domaine de La Porte features sculpted 18th-century interiors and a chapel with a celestial vault, set in parkland combining formal gardens and English landscaping.