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Négreville · Normandie

Moulin

Nestling in the Normandy bocage, this 18th-century flour mill retains a remarkable all-wooden waterwheel with closed troughs, living testimony to centuries of traditional milling.

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Sénas · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Eglise paroissiale Saint-Amand

Built at the end of the 11th century in the heart of Provence, the church of Saint-Amand de Sénas reveals an intact Romanesque nave with four bays and the moving remains of a cul-de-four choir, witness to a thousand years of sacred history.

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Saint-Pompont · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste

A stone sentinel between the Dordogne and the forests of Périgord Noir, Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Pompont blends Romanesque sobriety with the scars of the Wars of Religion, right down to its 14th-century fortified turret.

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Rohan · Bretagne

Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Encontre à Saint-Samson

A 16th-century Gothic gem built by Jean II de Rohan, Anne de Bretagne's uncle, this granite and schist chapel features an elegant polygonal apse and a remarkable choir screen in carved chestnut wood.

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Fontvieille · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Dolmen de la Mérindole

The 4,500-year-old megalithic remains at Fontvieille, the Mérindole dolmen bear witness to a fascinating Neolithic civilisation in the heart of limestone Provence, within a funerary complex that is unique in southern France.

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Terrasson-Lavilledieu · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Chapelle Notre-Dame du Mouret

A discreet remnant of a medieval priory, the chapelle Notre-Dame du Mouret reveals in Terrasson-Lavilledieu a Romanesque portal with three orders reworked over three centuries, in which all the evolutions of the medieval Périgord can be read like a palimpsest.

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Avranches · Normandie

Eglise Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais

With its two characteristic domes overlooking Avranches, Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais is a 19th-century neoclassical jewel whose tower-façade with lantern offers an urban silhouette that is unique in Normandy.

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Melgven · Bretagne

Chapelle de Coat-Am-Podou

Nestling in the woods of Finistère, the Coat-Am-Podou chapel boasts a sculpted granite façade of rare elegance, with its chimera gables and openwork bell tower - a jewel of Breton flamboyant Gothic.

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Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Distillerie Sécrestat, actuellement musée Goupil

Former neo-classical brick and stone distillery (1898), birthplace of the legendary Sécrestat bitters, it now houses the Musée Goupil, the sole guardian of the archives of 19th-century industrial art publishing.

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Saint-Barthélemy · Bretagne

Deux menhirs à Kernan

In the heart of Morbihan, the two menhirs of Kernan have been raising their granite silhouettes to the sky for over five thousand years. A raw and striking testimony to Breton megalithic civilisation.

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Belvès · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Tour de la Mairie

Standing as the sole remnant of a medieval Dominican convent, this fourteenth-century bell tower gives Belvès its most distinctive silhouette: a square tower crowned by an octagon, an exceptionally rare example in the Périgord of an architectural form characteristic of the Agenais.

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Andigné · Pays de la Loire

Château de Saint-Hénis

An Angevin fortress surrounded by a moat, Saint-Hénis features 15th-16th century buildings between the main courtyard and the lower courtyard, bearing witness to the Wars of Religion that bloodied the Craon region.

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Lamballe · Bretagne

Allée couverte du Chêne-Hut

A Neolithic relic buried deep in the Breton countryside, the Chêne-Hut covered walkway bears witness to a funerary ritual dating back five millennia, with its granite slabs set in a remarkable astronomical orientation.

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Juigné-sur-Loire · Pays de la Loire

Eglise

Nichée au cœur du val de Loire, l'église de Juigné-sur-Loire dévoile ses volumes romans du XIIe siècle et son chœur gothique d'une rare élégance, classée Monument Historique depuis 1965.

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Marcilhac-sur-Célé · Occitanie

Maison dite Maison du Roi

The medieval jewel of Marcilhac-sur-Célé, the Maison du Roi (King's House) stands in corbelled silhouette opposite the Roman ruins of the abbey. This timber-framed architecture, rare in the Lot, is steeped in Carolingian legends.

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Goualade · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Antoine

Nestled in the heart of the Girondine Entre-deux-Mers, the église Saint-Antoine de Goualade reveals a rare singularity: two distinct porches and a Romanesque-Gothic architecture of elegant coherence, listed as a Monument Historique since 1925.

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Plozévet · Bretagne

Menhir dit des Droits-de-l'Homme

The Plozévet menhir has stood as a stone sentinel in the Finistère region since Neolithic times. Listed since 1881, it embodies the mysterious power of Breton megalithy in a landscape of hedged farmland and moorland.

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Angers · Pays de la Loire

Maison

Au cœur d'Angers, cette demeure historique classée Monument Historique en 1925 témoigne de l'architecture civile angevine avec ses pierres de tuffeau dorées et ses détails ornementaux caractéristiques du patrimoine ligérien.

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Coutances · Normandie

Statue de Lebrun ou monument à Charles-François Lebrun

Erected in 1845 by the sculptor Antoine Etex, this bronze statue of Charles-François Lebrun, third consul of the Republic alongside Bonaparte, sits nobly in the heart of Coutances.

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Le Folgoët · Bretagne

Eglise ou basilique Notre-Dame

A jewel of Breton Gothic architecture, the Basilica of Notre-Dame du Folgoët stands with its two kersanton towers facing the Finistère moors. Its stone rood screen, a masterpiece of medieval sculpture, is one of the few still standing in France.

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Melrand · Bretagne

Chapelle Notre-Dame du Guelhouit

In the heart of Morbihan, this Breton chapel dating from 1683 is astonishing for its double apse plan - unique in Brittany - and its intact religious ensemble: scala-santa, sacred fountains and processional calvary.

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Angers · Pays de la Loire

Chapelle funéraire de la famille Thouin

This discreet but moving neoclassical funeral chapel, built in the first quarter of the 19th century, perpetuates the memory of the Thouin family, an illustrious dynasty of botanists and landscape gardeners who left their mark on France during the Enlightenment.

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Josselin · Bretagne

Eglise Sainte-Croix

Founded around 1050 by Josthon de Porhoët, the church of Sainte-Croix in Josselin still has an intact Romanesque nave and a tower with a singular silhouette adorned with a sculpted Christ on the north façade.

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Loguivy-Plougras · Bretagne

Eglise Saint-Emilion

A Breton Gothic jewel from the 16th century, the church of Saint-Émilion in Loguivy-Plougras features sculpted sandstones of rare finesse and a bell tower built in the middle of the Renaissance period, testimony to a preserved Armorican terroir.

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