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Langeais · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Langeais

Château de Langeais is a Renaissance residence built by Louis XI in 1465. It stands in the French commune of Langeais in the Indre-et-Loire département, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It replaced an earlier fortified castle built at the end of the 10th century by Foulque, Count of Anjou.

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Avignon · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Palais des Papes d'Avignon

An extraordinary papal fortress, the Palais des Papes dominates Avignon from its colossal towers. The largest medieval Gothic palace in the world, it embodies a century of absolute power for the Catholic Church.

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Meillant · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Meillant

Château de Meillant is a former fortified castle, partly rebuilt after the Hundred Years' War in a flamboyant Gothic style that evolved into the Louis XII style, which stands in the French commune of Meillant in the Cher department in the Centre region.

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Paris · Île-de-France

Sainte-Chapelle

The Sainte-Chapelle, also known as the Sainte-Chapelle du Palais, is a palatial chapel built on the Île de la Cité in Paris, on the site of the chapel of Saint-Nicolas-du-Palais, at the request of Saint Louis, to house the Holy Crown of Thorns, a piece of the True Cross, as well as various other objects.

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Angers · Pays de la Loire

Château d'Angers

The Château d'Angers, also known as the Château des Ducs d'Anjou, is located in the town of Angers in the French department of Maine-et-Loire.

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Pierrefonds · Hauts-de-France

Château de Pierrefonds

Château de Pierrefonds is an imposing fortified castle built in the late 14th century. It stands in the French commune of Pierrefonds, in the department of Oise in the Hauts-de-France region, on the south-eastern edge of the Compiègne forest, north of Paris.

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Paris · Île-de-France

Conciergerie

The term "conciergerie" can refer to:the Conciergerie de Paris, a former courthouse and prison in Paris, a vestige of the Palais de la Cité, now the Musée de la Conciergerie; a private concierge service, a personal assistance company; a corporate concierge service, a range of personal assistance services.

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Vincennes · Île-de-France

Château de Vincennes

A royal fortress at the gateway to Paris, Château de Vincennes boasts a 52-metre medieval keep - the highest in France - set against a Gothic Sainte-Chapelle of striking elegance. Seven centuries of Capetian history at a glance.

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Marseille · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Château d'If

The Château d'If is a French fortress built on the orders of King François I between 1529 and 1531 on the islet of If in the Frioul archipelago, near the Pomègues and Ratonneau islands in the centre of Marseille harbour.

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Amboise · Centre-Val de Loire

Château Royal d'Amboise

Perched majestically above the Loire on a rocky spur, the Château Royal d'Amboise was the first royal residence of the French Renaissance. It was here that Leonardo da Vinci died, at the invitation of Francis I, and where the conspirators in the tumultuous Amboise Conjuration of 1560 were hanged.

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Rambouillet · Île-de-France

Château de Rambouillet

The Château de Rambouillet, a former royal, imperial and presidential residence, is located in Rambouillet, the administrative centre of the southern Yvelines department in France, in 980 hectares of parkland in the heart of the Rambouillet forest.

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Jumièges · Normandie

Abbaye de Jumièges

Notre-Dame de Jumièges Abbey is an ancient Benedictine abbey founded by Saint Philibert, son of a Frankish count of Vasconia, around 654 on a royal tax estate at Jumièges, now in the Seine-Maritime département. It applied the rule of Saint Benedict from the end of the 7th century, a

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Hautefort · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de Hautefort

Standing on its rocky outcrop in the Périgord region, Château de Hautefort boasts a sumptuous Renaissance silhouette with golden-brown slate roofs, surrounded by meticulously designed formal gardens - a breathtaking sight in the heart of the Dordogne.

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Plévenon · Bretagne

Fort La Latte

Fort la Latte or Château de la Roche Goyon is a fortified castle located on the Pointe de la Latte, near Cap Fréhel in the Côtes-d'Armor department, in the commune of Plévenon in the Bay of Saint-Malo. Remarkable for its location on a rocky headland facing the sea, it has been used as a backdrop for several films.

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Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique · Hauts-de-France

Château de Coucy

Château de Coucy is a former fortified castle and seigneurial residence, built in the 13th century and now in ruins, the remains of which stand in the French commune of Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique in the Aisne département, in the Hauts-de-France region. The castle was the seat of

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Brézé · Pays de la Loire

Château de Brézé

A medieval fortress transformed into a Renaissance château, Brézé conceals beneath its formal gardens a network of troglodytic caves that is unique in Europe - an underground world as fascinating as its elegant facades.

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La Rochepot · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Château de La Rochepot

Château de La Rochepot is a Gothic-Burgundian fortified castle dating from the 12th century, remodelled in the 15th century and completely rebuilt in the 19th century using Burgundy glazed tiles. It is located in La Rochepot, some fifteen kilometres south-west of Beaune.

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Castelnaud-la-Chapelle · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de Castelnaud

A medieval fortress perched high above the Dordogne, Castelnaud was one of the most formidable Cathar and English strongholds of the Hundred Years' War. Its museum of warfare in the Middle Ages is unique in Europe.

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Maincy · Île-de-France

Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte

The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, located in the French commune of Maincy (Seine-et-Marne), 50 km south-east of Paris, near Melun, is a 17th-century château (1658-1661) built for Louis XIV's superintendent of finances, Nicolas Fouquet. It now belongs to a

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Bonifacio · Corse

Citadelle de Bonifacio

The citadel of Bonifacio is a military structure built progressively from the 12th century to protect Bonifacio, an important place for the Republic of Genoa for the security of its trade between Genoa, Liguria, and Sardinia and to control the

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Gordes · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Abbaye de Sénanque

Nestling in a washed valley in the Luberon, the Cistercian abbey of Sénanque embodies the perfection of Romanesque simplicity: a harmony of blonde stone and silence that time seems to have spared.

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Murol · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Château de Murol

Murol castle is located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, in the Puy-de-Dôme department. Built on a basalt promontory nearly a thousand metres above sea level, it overlooks the village of Murol. It was built from the 11th century onwards and was considerably modified in the 14th and 16th centuries.

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Compiègne · Hauts-de-France

Château de Compiègne

An imperial residence par excellence, the Château de Compiègne displays its neoclassical splendour in the heart of a royal forest. Home to the Bonapartes and Kings of France, it houses one of the finest collections of Empire furniture in Europe.

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Saint-Front-sur-Lémance · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de Bonaguil

Château de Bonaguil is an ancient medieval fortress, extensively modified in the 15th century, which stands in the French commune of Saint-Front-sur-Lémance in the Lot-et-Garonne département, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.