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Erdeven · Bretagne

Alignement de Coët er Blei

Alignement mégalithique de Coët er Blei : des rangées de menhirs dressés il y a plus de 5 000 ans dans les landes d'Erdeven, témoins silencieux d'une civilisation néolithique qui réorganisa le paysage breton à grande échelle.

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Saint-Rémy-de-Provence · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Fouilles de Glanum

Buried at the foot of the Alpilles mountains, Glanum reveals three millennia of overlapping civilisations: Greek sanctuaries, Roman forum and thermal baths - an ancient town that is an absolute rarity in France.

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Arles · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Maison du 17s.

In the heart of ancient Arles, this 17th-century residence reveals the sober elegance of Provençal Baroque, with its ashlar façade, moulded frames and the golden patina of the centuries. A discreet gem of Arles heritage.

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Arles · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Nécropole des Alyscamps

On the outskirts of Arles, the Alyscamps is one of the largest early Christian cemeteries in the West: an avenue of ancient sarcophagi lined with poplar trees, immortalised by Van Gogh and Gauguin.

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Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Pont ferroviaire Saint-Jean, habituellement désigné sous le nom de passerelle Eiffel

A major early work by Gustave Eiffel, this metal footbridge crosses the Garonne at Bordeaux with striking technical daring — thirteen years before the tower that would immortalise his name.

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Mauzens-et-Miremont · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Gisement préhistorique de la Faurelie

At the heart of the Périgord Noir, the deposit of la Faurelie reveals the secrets of the Upper Palaeolithic: a rock art and settlement site listed as a Historic Monument since 1930, bearing witness to humanity's first artists.

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Bouges-le-Château · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Bouges

Joyau classique du XVIIIe siècle niché dans l'Indre, le château de Bouges séduit par l'alliance rare de jardins à la française signés Duchêne et d'un parc paysager d'une cohérence absolue.

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Périgueux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Musée d’art et d’archéologie du Périgord (MAAP)

Jewel of Périgord heritage, the MAAP holds one of the richest prehistoric collections in France, bringing together Gallo-Roman archaeology, decorative arts and fine arts in the heart of the ancient Vesunna.

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Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Ancienne mairerie

At the heart of old Bordeaux, the former seventeenth-century mairerie embodies the administrative rigour of the Grand Siècle, with its golden stone façade and its classically ordered style, typically girondin.

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Saint-Rabier · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Site de la grotte du Peyrat

Nichée dans les falaises périgordines, la grotte du Peyrat livre un témoignage saisissant de l'art et des rites du Paléolithique supérieur, inscrite aux Monuments Historiques pour la richesse de ses vestiges préhistoriques.

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Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Hôtel dit Petit hôtel Labottière

Erected between 1784 and 1788, the Petit hôtel Labottière is a neo-classical gem of Bordeaux that exudes the elegance of the goût à la grecque style, set within a courtyard and garden ensemble that has been preserved in its original state.

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Saumur · Pays de la Loire

Eglise de Dampierre-sur-Loire

Nestling on the banks of the Loire, the church of Dampierre-sur-Loire unfurls its tufa stone between Angevin Gothic and Renaissance, a silent witness to eight centuries of Loire history.

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Les Ponts-de-Cé · Pays de la Loire

Château

A stone watchtower at the gateway to Angers, the Château des Ponts-de-Cé has dominated the Loire since the Middle Ages, bearing witness to the Wars of Religion and the great battles fought by Angevins on this strategic crossing of the royal river.

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Champtocé-sur-Loire · Pays de la Loire

Eglise

Built between the 14th and 16th centuries in the heart of Champtocé-sur-Loire, this Anjou Gothic church with its ribbed vaults and flamboyant windows stands a stone's throw from the Loire, in the shadow of the ruins of Gilles de Rais' castle.

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Le Verdon-sur-Mer · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Phare de Cordouan

A stone sentinel at the mouth of the Gironde, the phare de Cordouan is the oldest lighthouse in France still in operation, a Renaissance masterpiece adorned with a chapel and royal apartments worthy of a palace.

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Locmariaquer · Bretagne

Tumulus avec dolmen du Mamé-er-Hroëk, dit aussi du Ruyk

Colossal tumulus néolithique de Locmariaquer, le Mamé-er-Hroëk dissimule un dolmen à chambre monumentale sous un manteau de terre : l'un des témoins les plus imposants de la civilisation mégalithique bretonne.

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Vézac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Grotte du Roc

Nestled in the cliffs of the Vézère, the Grotte du Roc à Vézac reveals a Magdalenian sanctuary of rare intensity: parietal engravings and bas-relief sculptures bear witness to a spirituality 15,000 years old.

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Béhuard · Pays de la Loire

Eglise

A Marian shrine perched on a rock in the heart of the Loire, the church at Béhuard is a unique place of pilgrimage where faith, stone and the river merge into a striking picture.

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Saint-Emilion · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Donjon fortifié, dit Château du Roi

Standing sentinel in stone upon its rocky plinth, the Château du Roi de Saint-Émilion is the only Romanesque keep preserved intact in the Gironde — a raw and fascinating remnant at the heart of the world's most celebrated vineyard.

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Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Grotte des Combarelles I

At the heart of the Vézère valley, the Combarelles I caves contain one of the largest collections of parietal engravings in the world: more than 600 Magdalenian figures traced 13,000 years ago in the depths of the rock.

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Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Pierre

In the heart of the old town of Bordeaux, Saint-Pierre church unfurls its flamboyant Gothic lacework between the Garonne and the bustling square, witness to five centuries of sacred architecture and urban life in Bordeaux.

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Les Rosiers-sur-Loire · Pays de la Loire

Presbytère

A discreet Renaissance gem in the Val d'Anjou, this presbytery in Les Rosiers-sur-Loire reveals the sober elegance of 16th-century Loire civil architecture, and has been listed as a Historic Monument since 1970.

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Tursac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Gisement préhistorique du Ruth ou Abri Pagès

Nestled in the golden cliffs of the Vézère, the abri Pagès du Ruth reveals the silent traces of Magdalenian humanity: rock engravings, bone remains and lithic tools of rare density.

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Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Hôtel Baour

A discreet gem of Bordeaux, the hôtel Baour displays the restrained elegance of Louis XVI neoclassicism at the heart of a remarkable urban fabric, bearing witness to the bourgeois splendour of the city of the Enlightenment.