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Saumur · Pays de la Loire
A jewel of Enlightenment military architecture, Saumur's Chardonnet district is home to France's only Cavalry School, whose H-shaped layout and majestic Place d'Armes bear witness to exceptional military town planning.
Le Mont-Saint-Michel · Normandie
In the heart of Mont-Saint-Michel, the Ponceau and Eudes houses embody Norman medieval civil architecture at its most authentic, stone witnesses to daily life on the island over the centuries.
Le Bugue · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
At the very edge of the Périgord noir, the grotte de Bara-Bahau conceals an engraved bestiary some 15,000 years old: bisons, bears and horses etched with flint onto immaculate limestone, in a silence of absolute prehistory.
Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Sentinels of stone standing tall before the Garonne, the two rostral columns of the esplanade des Quinconces tower over Bordeaux at 21 metres, crowned with allegories of Commerce and Navigation.
Saint-Martin-de-la-Place · Pays de la Loire
Nestling in the heart of the Anjou region, this 12th-century Romanesque priory stands with its white tufa stone walls on the banks of the Loire. A discreet monastic jewel, listed as a Historic Monument, it reveals the medieval spirituality of the valley.
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the Vézère's Vésinian cliffs, the grotte de Cournazac contains Palaeolithic remains of exceptional density, silent witnesses to a vanished humanity at the heart of the world capital of Prehistory.
Mazères · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Medieval fortress from the 14th century, enhanced by Viollet-le-Duc, Roquetaillade displays an interior décor unique in the world: furniture, fireplaces and paintings conceived in 1860 by the master of French neo-Gothic.
Angers · Pays de la Loire
A medieval fortress with 17 schist and tufa towers, the Château d'Angers is home to the fabulous Apocalypse Tapestry, a 14th-century textile masterpiece and the largest medieval tapestry in the world.
Marseille · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
A green setting designed by Le Corbusier around the Cité Radieuse, this 4-hectare park in Marseille combines modern geometry, artificial hills and skilfully orchestrated views of one of the 20th century's masterpieces.
Bayac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Eponymous of a worldwide Gravettian culture, this Périgordian site, listed in 1945, has been yielding burins, points and ornaments for over a century, revealing 27,000 years of human presence.
Nestling in the Grande Rue of Mont-Saint-Michel, the Maison des Trois Étoiles is one of the jewels of the island town's medieval civil architecture, listed as a Historic Monument in 1928.
Nestling in the Grande Rue of Mont-Saint-Michel, this medieval residence, listed in 1928, bears witness to Norman civil architecture in the heart of the island town, with its characteristic corbels and carved timber framing.
At the heart of old Bordeaux, the Maison Acquart combines seventeenth-century Mannerist façades with a grand open-well staircase featuring exceptional ironwork — a discreet gem of Bordeaux's merchant architecture.
Arles · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
A Renaissance jewel in the heart of old Arles, the Hôtel Laugier de Montblanc's sculpted facades, where Italian influence meets Provençal tradition, bear rare witness to the aristocratic art of living of the 16th century.
Nestling in the historic heart of Arles, Saint-Julien church blends 12th-century Romanesque austerity with sober Baroque remodelling, a discreet but precious testimony to twelve centuries of Provençal faith.
Fougères-sur-Bièvre · Centre-Val de Loire
Vestige saisissant de la fin du gothique, le château de Fougères-sur-Bièvre dresse ses mâchicoulis et son donjon médiéval au cœur du Val de Loire, témoignage intact d'une demeure seigneuriale du XVe siècle.
A discreet gem of Bordeaux during the Age of Enlightenment, the hôtel Piganeau captivates with its neoclassical façade adorned with six sculpted bas-reliefs and pediments that bear witness to the refinement of 18th-century Girondin civic architecture.
Nestled in the cliff face of the Vézère, the Abri du Poisson contains one of the oldest zoomorphic bas-reliefs in the world: a salmon engraved 25,000 years ago with breathtaking anatomical precision.
An absolute masterpiece by Le Corbusier, Marseille's Cité Radieuse redefines collective housing: 337 sculptural flats and a vertiginous roof terrace for 900 people in the Provencal sunshine.
Saint-Emilion · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Carved into the rock in the 8th century by the hermit who gave his name to Saint-Émilion, this sacred grotto houses a miraculous spring and a Gothic chapel of a striking intimacy.
Sergeac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nestled in the limestone cliffs of the Vézère, the abri Labattut reveals to the initiated eye Palaeolithic engravings and sculptures of rare intensity, silent witnesses to a humanity 20,000 years old.
Nestling in the heart of the island village of Mont-Saint-Michel, this parish church, listed as a historic monument since 1909, offers rare evidence of village religious life at the foot of the famous Benedictine abbey.
Nestling on the slopes of the sacred rock, the Logis-Saint-Aubert is one of the rare medieval civil dwellings on Mont-Saint-Michel, a rare testimony to the way in which the merchants and clerics who lived in the pilgrim town lived.
A spectacular vestige of antiquity in the heart of Bordeaux, the Palais Gallien is the only visible Roman amphitheatre in Aquitaine, its thousand-year-old arcades jutting out between the buildings like a fragment of Rome lost in the Gironde.
