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Saint-Jean-Kerdaniel · Bretagne

Croix de Kerfontan

Dressée au cœur du Trégor breton, la croix de Kerfontan incarne l'art statuaire religieux du XVIIe siècle : un fût de kersanton finement sculpté, classé Monument Historique depuis 1926, veille sur les âmes de Saint-Jean-Kerdaniel.

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Mouleydier · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Canal de Lalinde (groupe des écluses, y compris le bassin de croisement, ponts supérieur et inférieur, façades et toitures des maisons éclusières aval et amont, lieudit Tuilières)

A jewel of 19th-century river engineering, the canal de Lalinde à Tuilières winds along the Dordogne with its monumental locks and its listed lock-keepers' cottages, witnesses to a golden age of boating.

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Saint-Lormel · Bretagne

Ancienne église Saint-Lunaire

Nestling in the Breton hedgerows of Saint-Lormel, this ancient church reveals a Romanesque doorway with capitals adorned with masks and a flamboyant Gothic doorway featuring a lion and a chimera. A miniature of stone and mystery.

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Maure-de-Bretagne · Bretagne

Croix du cimetière en pierre

A sculpted jewel from the 16th century, this Breton cemetery cross displays an iconographic programme of rare finesse beneath its three-lobed arches: Christ, the Virgin Mary, saints and angels together in stone.

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Plougonven · Bretagne

Manoir de Mézedern

Nestling in the heart of Finistère, Mézedern manor house features five centuries of Breton architecture around a quadrangular courtyard, from the medieval dwelling to the Renaissance dovecote tower - a rare and authentic stone setting.

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Cherbourg-en-Cotentin · Normandie

Batterie d'artillerie du Roule

Carved out of the rock of the Roule mountain, this Atlantikwall battery dominates Cherbourg with its four 105mm casemates, a raw and striking vestige of the Nazi occupation and the fighting of June 1944.

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Fougères · Bretagne

Ancien hôtel de la Belinaye

Au cœur de Fougères, cet hôtel particulier du XVIIIe siècle abrita la naissance du marquis de La Rouërie, héros de la Révolution américaine et figure légendaire de la résistance bretonne.

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Octeville · Normandie

Eglise

Nestling in the heart of Octeville, this Norman church, listed as a Historic Monument since 1943, reveals a subtle marriage of limestone and Romanesque volumes, a living reflection of ten centuries of Cotentin history.

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Torcé · Bretagne

Eglise Saint-Médard

Au cœur du bocage breton, l'église Saint-Médard de Torcé dévoile une crypte romane du XIe siècle et un retable baroque monumental, témoins de dix siècles d'histoire sacrée en Ille-et-Vilaine.

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Arcachon · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Villa Alexandre Dumas

A jewel of the Ville d'Hiver d'Arcachon, the Villa Alexandre Dumas combines fin-de-siècle seaside elegance with the history of French Jewish philanthropy, embodied by the patron Daniel Iffla-Osiris.

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

Monument aux morts de la guerre de 1914-1918

A singular work by Clara Saint René Taillandier, this Provençal monument to the dead celebrates its heroes in Provençal and summons the Alpilles in its stone - a two-faced tribute, between intimate mourning and proud resistance.

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Les Baux-de-Provence · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Maison dite Les Remparts

Clinging to the limestone cliffs of Les Baux-de-Provence, this medieval and Renaissance residence embodies the soul of a listed village, between thousand-year-old ramparts and incomparable Provencal light.

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Plougasnou · Bretagne

Lec'h de Kermenhir ou Keraminir

A mysterious Iron Age stele on the coast of Finistère, the lec'h of Kermenhir silently embodies two millennia of Celtic history in the wild landscape of northern Finistère.

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Sainte-Trie · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Abbaye de Dalon

Nestled in a Périgord valley crossed by the Dalon, this twelfth-century Cistercian abbey combines a surviving Romanesque chapel, a medieval chapter house, and a seventeenth-century château in a rare and striking ensemble.

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Fleurigné · Bretagne

Eglise Saint-Martin

Au cœur de la Bretagne, l'église Saint-Martin de Fleurigné étonne par sa synthèse audacieuse : des formes italiennes de la Renaissance coulées dans la tradition architecturale française du XVIIe siècle.

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Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Hôtel Saint-François, dit aussi Hôtel de la Perle

A little-known jewel of Bordeaux, the Hôtel Saint-François is astonishing for its daring construction: as early as 1854, Antoine Audubert used structural steel and suspended floors, a visionary precursor of modern industrial architecture.

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Galgon · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Seurin

Nestled in the heart of the Gironde vineyard, the église Saint-Seurin de Galgon reveals a restrained Saintonge Romanesque style from the 12th century, listed among the Monuments Historiques, where golden stone and blind arcades tell a thousand years of rural faith.

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Marseille · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Tour des Trinitaires et le mur y attenant

A medieval vestige in the heart of Marseille, the Tour des Trinitaires rises up in austere silhouette on the former line of the city's fortifications. A piece of port and religious history listed as a Historic Monument.

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Périgueux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Maison Renaissance ou ancien hôtel de Lestrade dit aussi "hôtel de la Joubertie"

At the heart of Périgueux, this Renaissance hôtel conceals an architectural treasure unique in France: a four-newel staircase with sculpted decoration of exceptional virtuosity, a miraculous survivor of a great seigneurial residence of the 16th century.

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La Ciotat · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Palais Lumière

The cradle of the 7th art on the shores of the Mediterranean, the Palais Lumière in La Ciotat was the summer home of the inventors of cinema. An eclectic setting steeped in history and the sunshine of Provence.

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Verdelais · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Site de pèlerinage de Verdelais : Allées de Verdelais

Lined with centuries-old lime trees, the allées de Verdelais have guided pilgrims towards the basilique Notre-Dame since the Middle Ages, forming a processional axis imbued with serenity amidst the Bordeaux vineyards.

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Le Palais · Bretagne

Fort de Taillefer

Sentinelle de granit dressée sur les falaises de Belle-Île, le Fort de Taillefer incarne deux siècles de stratégie défensive française, entre architecture Séré de Rivières et âpre beauté atlantique.

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Saint-Malo · Bretagne

Ancienne abbaye Saint-Benoît, actuellement palais de justice

Ancienne abbaye bénédictine reconvertie en palais de justice, ce joyau du XVIIe siècle malouïn conjugue la rigueur du classicisme breton à une histoire monastique pluriséculaire au cœur de la cité corsaire.

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Saint-Morillon · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Maurille

Nestled in the heart of the Bordeaux vineyard, the église Saint-Maurille de Saint-Morillon reveals seven centuries of rural piety, from its Romanesque apse of the 12th century to its Gothic chapels with ribbed vaulting of a discreet elegance.

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