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Puiseaux · Centre-Val de Loire

Halle

In the heart of Puiseaux, this 15th-century medieval market hall, remodelled under Louis XIII, combines French-style carpentry and Renaissance decoration - mascarons and ball pillars - to create a monument of rare historical coherence.

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Chazelet · Centre-Val de Loire

Château

Nestling deep in the Berry region, Château de Chazelet combines medieval sobriety with 19th-century refinement. Its pioneering reinforced concrete bridge, designed by Joseph Monier in 1875, is a unique landmark in the history of French engineering.

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Levroux · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison de bois, dite Maison Saint-Jacques

In the heart of Levroux, this timber-framed 16th-century house dazzles with its Renaissance sculptures: cherubs in armour, a cormier post with three figures and Saint-André's crosses make up a façade of rare elegance.

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Selommes · Centre-Val de Loire

Dolmen de Cornevache

A discreet Neolithic vestige in the Loir-et-Cher region, the Cornevache dolmen with its sandstone orthostats stands among the Selommes woods, a silent testimony to a civilisation dating back five millennia and listed as a Historic Monument.

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Vicq-sur-Nahon · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de La Moustière

A classic jewel in the Berry region, Château de La Moustière features carved woodwork and Versailles-style parquet flooring in the heart of the Indre region, in the discreet elegance of 18th-century France.

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Nouan-le-Fuzelier · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Moléon

Nestling in the heart of the mysterious Sologne region, Château de Moléon unfurls its tawny brickwork and medieval towers over five centuries of history, a rare example of intact Sologne seigneurial architecture.

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Levroux · Centre-Val de Loire

Statue « Le berger allongé » dite aussi « Le berger couché sur le ventre »

A rural masterpiece by Ernest Nivet (1930), this stone shepherd reclining in a public garden in Levroux soberly embodies the pastoral life of the Berry region, an intimate gift from a sculptor to his home town.

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Blois · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison Calcat dite Logis du Loup

An Art Deco jewel perched on the slopes of the Loire in Blois, the Logis du Loup captivates visitors with its absolute stylistic coherence and its exceptional panoramic position overlooking the royal river.

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Tours · Centre-Val de Loire

Maisons

In the heart of Tours, these 15th-century half-timbered houses reveal a folk statuary of rare finesse: saints, apostles and royal figures carved into the wood of the corbelled pillars.

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Brives · Centre-Val de Loire

Croix et bénitier du 15e siècle

In the heart of the Berry region, this 15th-century granite cross combines medieval sculpture with rare liturgical furnishings: a lectern carved from a single block in its base, a unique testimony to popular faith in the Indre region.

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Huismes · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Contebault

An unfinished Renaissance manor house in the Loire Valley, Château de Contebault fascinates visitors with its corbelled turrets and its story of thwarted ambition: a grandiose project that remained half-finished due to a lack of funds.

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Pessac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Demeure

Elegant Bordeaux residence from the 18th century, enhanced by Jacques Patin with a columned porch and an orangery, nestled in a southern park of rare serenity in Pessac.

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Bourges · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison du 15e siècle

A rare vestige of Berru civil architecture from the early 15th century, this Sainte-Chapelle house combines a stone base with corbelled panelling, a precious testimony to medieval Berry.

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Huillé · Pays de la Loire

Eglise

Nestling in the heart of the Angevin village of Huillé, this thousand-year-old church unfolds eleven centuries of sacred architecture, from the austere Romanesque of its origins to the flamboyant Gothic enrichments of the Loire Renaissance.

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Coulaures · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Chapelle Notre-Dame

Born from a sailor's vow in the 13th century, this humble Périgordian chapel, which survived the floods of the 15th century, preserves a façade with open arcades unique in the Dordogne, a true window between the sacred and the village square.

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La Trinité-sur-Mer · Bretagne

Allée couverte dite Er-Roh

A Neolithic vestige buried deep in the Morbihan, the Er-Roh covered walkway erects its 5,000-year-old granite slabs just a stone's throw from the Atlantic, a silent testimony to the megalith builders of Brittany.

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Glomel · Bretagne

Eglise Saint-Germain

Nestling in the heart of Central Brittany, the church of Saint-Germain de Glomel features Renaissance and classical volumes in slate schist, bearing witness to a rural faith shaped over the centuries and twice listed as a Historic Monument.

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Aix-en-Provence · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Hôtel de Simiane, dit aussi hôtel de Grignan-Simiane

A 17th-century baroque jewel of Aix, the Hôtel de Simiane was the home of Françoise de Grignan, daughter of Mme de Sévigné, and boasts an interior décor of rare elegance by Thomas Lainé.

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Plouha · Bretagne

Croix du 17e siècle dite Croix de la Sauraie

Dressée au cœur du Trégor costarmoricain, la Croix de la Sauraie est un chef-d'œuvre de la statuaire bretonne du XVIIe siècle, sculptée dans le kersanton et le granit, veillant sur les chemins de Plouha depuis plus de trois cents ans.

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Septèmes-les-Vallons · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Oppidum des Mayans

A stone sentinel dating from the 6th century BC, the Mayan oppidum reveals a defensive system with a double enclosure that is unique in the south of France, and may bear witness to an unprecedented cohabitation between the indigenous population and the Greek garrison.

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Plufur · Bretagne

Eglise Saint-Florent

Au cœur du Trégor breton, l'église Saint-Florent de Plufur dévoile un ensemble paroissial d'une rare cohérence : clocher-porche monumental, lambris peints et ossuaire témoignent d'un art religieux populaire au sommet de son expression.

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Tarascon · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Chapelle Saint-Victor

Nichée dans les terres de Tarascon, la chapelle Saint-Victor dévoile l'austère beauté du roman provençal des XIe-XIIe siècles : un sanctuaire millénaire taillé dans la pierre blonde, empreint de spiritualité médiévale.

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Souillac · Occitanie

Anciens bâtiments conventuels de Sainte-Marie

The jewel in Souillac's crown, these 17th-century convent buildings house a mysterious "ladies' room" adorned with scalloped stucco, eagles and shells of rare elegance.

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Genêts · Normandie

Eglise et cimetière qui l'entoure

At the gateway to the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, the church of Genêts, with its Norman stonework dating from the 12th to 18th centuries, stands guard over a maritime cemetery with tombs battered by the winds of the open sea.