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Plouhinec · Bretagne

Menhir dit du Bourg

Sentinelle de pierre dressée depuis le Néolithique aux portes de Plouhinec, le menhir du Bourg incarne la mystérieuse spiritualité des bâtisseurs mégalithiques du Morbihan, classé Monument Historique depuis 1964.

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Aillas · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Notre-Dame

Formerly a Templar church dating from the 12th century, Notre-Dame d'Aillas combines Romanesque austerity with scholarly 19th-century restorations. Its remodelled bell tower and its original apsidal chapels make it a rare testament to the Templar presence in the Gironde.

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Montauban-de-Bretagne · Bretagne

Château

Joyau médiéval de Bretagne, le château de Montauban dévoile huit siècles de stratégie défensive : motte castrale, châtelet du XVe siècle et donjon rescapé des canons de Charles VIII.

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Carnac · Bretagne

Dolmen à galerie de Coët-à-Tous (Mané-Grageux)

Aux portes de Carnac, le dolmen à galerie de Coët-à-Tous déploie ses imposants orthostates néolithiques dans un silence millénaire. Un monument funéraire d'exception, classé depuis 1928, niché au cœur du pays mégalithique breton.

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Luzech · Occitanie

Eglise

Nestling in Luzech in the heart of the Lot department, this 14th-century medieval chapel stands with its elegant gabled bell tower above a semi-circular apse, a moving vestige of a thousand-year-old place of worship.

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Arles · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Immeuble dit ancienne oeuvre du Bouillon

In the heart of Arles, the former Œuvre du Bouillon embodies three centuries of Provençal charity. This remarkable building, listed as a Historic Monument, reveals the sober, dignified architecture of the charitable institutions of the Ancien Régime.

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Crosville-sur-Douve · Normandie

Château

A fortified manor house in the Manche department, Crosville-sur-Douve castle is a blend of medieval keep and Renaissance dwelling, with a great hall decorated with mythological frescoes inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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Langonnet · Bretagne

Eglise Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul

The Romanesque jewel of Morbihan, the church of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul in Langonnet boasts sculpted capitals from a unique local school, bearing witness to medieval art of rare originality that has been preserved since the 12th century.

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Périgueux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Hôtel de Sallegourde

A Renaissance gem nestled in the heart of Périgueux, the hôtel de Sallegourde displays its 16th-century façades with understated elegance, bearing witness to the refinement of the Périgord bourgeoisie at the height of the French Renaissance.

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

Oratoire Notre-Dame

A discreet jewel of popular Provençal piety, the Notre-Dame de Peyrolles-en-Provence oratory has watched over the village for centuries, bearing witness to the Marian devotion deeply rooted in the identity of Haute-Provence.

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La Réole · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Ancien Hôtel de ville

The medieval jewel of La Réole, this former 12th-century town hall is one of the oldest surviving examples of municipal architecture in France, bearing witness to the vitality of the communes of medieval Gascony.

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Combourg · Bretagne

Manoir du Grand Trémaudan

Niché dans le bocage breton de Combourg, le manoir du Grand Trémaudan déploie cinq siècles d'architecture seigneuriale, de ses ailes médiévales à son corps de logis Louis XIII coiffé d'un élégant toit à l'impériale.

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Erdeven · Bretagne

Tertre et cistes du Pusso

In the heart of the megalithic region of Erdeven, the Pusso mound and cists reveal a Neolithic collective burial site of remarkable integrity, silent testimony to funerary rituals dating back five millennia.

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Saint-Aignan · Bretagne

Camp protohistorique dit du Castel-Finans

Perched on a rocky spur in Morbihan, Castel-Finans is a fortified protohistoric camp whose impressive earth and stone ramparts bear witness to human occupation dating back over two millennia.

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Lannion · Bretagne

Eglise Saint-Jean-du-Baly

Joyau gothique breton de Lannion, Saint-Jean-du-Baly déploie ses doubles collatéraux depuis le XIVe siècle, mêlant austérité castrale et élans flamboyants en un écrin de pierre granitique unique.

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Meigné · Pays de la Loire

Eglise

Nestling in the heart of the village of Meigné, this 11th-12th-century Romanesque church boasts a neat chevet and discreet 17th- and 18th-century alterations, bearing witness to a thousand years of Angevin rural history.

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La Jumellière · Pays de la Loire

Château des Buhards

Built between 1853 and 1856 above a small valley of the Layon, the château des Buhards captivates with its slate-and-brick polychromy and its exceptional sculpted decoration of hunting trophies, the combined work of a landscape architect and a Parisian master builder.

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Rablay-sur-Layon · Pays de la Loire

Maison du Porche ou de la Dîme

In Rablay-sur-Layon, the Maison du Porche or Tithe House rises up from its tufa stones in the heart of the vineyards of Anjou. Its medieval porch and its use as a seigneurial collection make it a rare example of Loire civil architecture.

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Loupiac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre

A Romanesque gem of the 12th century in the Gironde, the church of Saint-Pierre de Loupiac captivates with its exceptional sculpted façade: a frieze with three narrative registers — Adam and Ève, the Last Supper, the Mystic Lamb — of a rare theological coherence.

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Saint-Pol-de-Léon · Bretagne

Manoir de Kersaliou

Nestling in the Léonard region, Kersaliou Manor boasts the sober elegance of 16th-century Brittany: carved granite, sculpted dormer windows and a seigniorial atmosphere unchanged since the Renaissance.

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Saint-Gelven · Bretagne

Abbaye de Bon Repos

Nichée au creux d'un vallon breton baigné par le Blavet, l'abbaye cistercienne de Bon Repos distille une mélancolie poétique à travers ses ruines médiévales du XIIIe siècle et ses communs du XVIIIe, figés dans une lumière hors du temps.

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Saumur · Pays de la Loire

Dolmen dit La Petite Pierre Couverte

A Neolithic vestige standing guard over the hillsides of the Saumur region, this open-chamber dolmen is a striking reminder of the burial practices of our ancestors 5,000 years ago.

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Angers · Pays de la Loire

Ancien grand séminaire Saint-Serge, aujourd'hui lycée Joachim-du-Bellay

A jewel of Anjou Gothic designed by Joly-Leterme, this tufa chapel, built between 1865 and 1870, sits elegantly alongside the medieval abbey church of Saint-Serge, in the heart of a historic lycée in Angers.

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Marseille · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Eglise de la vieille Major (ancienne cathédrale) ou ensemble cathédral Sainte-Marie-Majeure

A Romanesque jewel nestling in the heart of the Old Port, La vieille Major is one of the most beautiful Romanesque cathedrals in Provence, venerated since the 11th century in front of the Grande Bleue.

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