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

Immeuble dit Maison de Bertrand Mocadeu

Nestling in the steep streets of Les Baux-de-Provence, Maison Bertrand Mocadeu is a jewel of Provençal medieval civil architecture, listed as a Historic Monument since 1905, with its exceptionally elegant geminated windows.

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Marseille · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

ancien observatoire

In the heart of old Marseille, the former Accoules observatory houses a neo-classical hall with columns of rare elegance, a vestige of a place where Jesuits and academics scrutinised the stars for over a century.

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Trégourez · Bretagne

Eglise Saint-Idunet

In the heart of Finistère, the church of Saint-Idunet in Trégourez reveals a 16th-century Breton Gothic nave and precious fragments of Passion stained glass, silent witnesses to a lost art of glassmaking.

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Quéménéven · Bretagne

Eglise Saint-Ouen

In the heart of Finistère, the church of Saint-Ouen in Quéménéven boasts a Renaissance bell tower of rare elegance: a porch with pilasters, a gallery with balusters and an octagonal spire between openwork gables, a jewel of 17th-century Brittany.

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Landévennec · Bretagne

Eglise Notre-Dame

Nestling in the heart of the Breton village of Landévennec, Notre-Dame church reveals the soul of late-Breton Baroque: a squat bell tower-porch, kersanton frames and a monastic sobriety inherited from the ancient neighbouring abbey.

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Guiscriff · Bretagne

Eglise Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul

Nestling in the heart of Morbihan, Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul church in Guiscriff features granite stones carved in the 15th and 16th centuries, an intact testimony to Breton sacred art at its Gothic height.

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Roquefort-la-Bédoule · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Chapelle Saint-André-de-Julhans

Nichée dans le massif provençal, cette chapelle romane du XIIe siècle dédie sa sobre beauté à saint André. Ses pierres calcaires dorées et son abside en cul-de-four témoignent de l'art roman ligure qui irradie les collines de Roquefort-la-Bédoule.

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Levroux · Centre-Val de Loire

monument aux morts de la guerre 1914-1918

Erected in the heart of Levroux after the Great War, this monument to the dead, now listed as a Historic Monument, is a sober and poignant tribute to the children of the Indre who fell for France.

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Marseille · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Musée Grobet-Labadié

A Second Empire bourgeois jewel case nestling in Marseille, the Grobet-Labadié museum boasts an intact Victorian interior, exceptional decorative arts collections and a romantic garden in the heart of the city.

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Libourne · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de Sales (également sur commune de Lalande-de-Pomerol)

A Mannerist vestige of Bordeaux's Grand Siècle, the château de Sales displays its enclosed courtyard layout inherited from medieval fortresses, enhanced by refined decoration between Libourne and Lalande-de-Pomerol.

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Saint-Méard-de-Gurçon · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Méard

Sentinel of stone in the heart of the Périgord, the église Saint-Méard reveals a sixteenth-century doorway of rare refinement, where sculpted twisted mouldings and stone lacework frame a tympanum peopled with angels bearing Gothic phylacteries.

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La Forest-Landerneau · Bretagne

Vestiges du château de Joyeuse Garde

Surrounded by the Breton forest, the remains of Joyeuse Garde bear echoes of Arthurian legends: this mythical castle is said to have been home to Lancelot du Lac himself, before sinking into silence in the 16th century.

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Sourzac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul

Nestled in the heart of the Périgord, the église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Sourzac gracefully blends fifteenth-century flamboyant Gothic with Romanesque remnants, a rare testament to a thousand years of spiritual continuity.

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Epiniac · Bretagne

Ancienne abbaye de la Vieuville

Founded in 1137, as the spiritual daughter of Savigny and heir to Cîteaux, La Vieville Abbey has preserved its Romanesque remains from the 12th century, with their powerful sobriety, nestling in a setting of Breton greenery.

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Chemiré-sur-Sarthe · Pays de la Loire

Presbytère (ancien)

A discreet Renaissance gem in the Sarthe valley, this former presbytery in Chemiré-sur-Sarthe reveals the sober elegance of 16th-century Loire civil architecture, where the white tufa stone meets the measured lines of an exceptional clerical residence.

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Valognes · Normandie

Hôtel Anneville du Vast

In the heart of the "Versailles of Normandy", the Hôtel Anneville du Vast boasts a classical facade with five bays, an intact testimony to the aristocratic lifestyle of 18th-century Valognes.

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La Trinité-sur-Mer · Bretagne

Dolmen et ciste de Penher

Just outside La Trinité-sur-Mer, this Neolithic dolmen and cist bear witness to 5,000 years of human occupation on the Breton coast, in one of the densest megalithic areas in Europe.

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

Fontaine de la Mule Noire

Nestling in the narrow streets of Aix-en-Provence, the Fontaine de la Mule Noire is one of the discreet gems of Aix's heritage, combining Provençal Baroque charm with enduring popular legend.

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Castillon-la-Bataille · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Symphorien

Standing at the heart of Castillon-la-Bataille, the église Saint-Symphorien reveals a sober Girondine Baroque elegance from the 18th century, listed as a Monument Historique since 1925.

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Angers · Pays de la Loire

Greniers Saint-Jean

Vestiges médiévaux remarquables au cœur d'Angers, les Greniers Saint-Jean témoignent de l'organisation économique et caritative de la ville angevine au Moyen Âge, avec leurs puissants murs en tuffeau et leur architecture de stockage unique.

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Chalonnes-sur-Loire · Pays de la Loire

Eglise Saint-Maurille

Érigée au cœur de Chalonnes-sur-Loire, l'église Saint-Maurille déploie ses pierres angevines depuis le XIIIe siècle, offrant un témoignage exceptionnel du gothique plantagenêt en Val de Loire.

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

Hôtel de ville

The town hall of Les Baux-de-Provence, the jewel in the crown of the Alpilles region, combines golden limestone and Provençal sobriety in the heart of a fortified village listed as a Historic Monument in 1914.

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Saint-Mathurin-sur-Loire · Pays de la Loire

Maison dite de L'Ecce Homo

Joyau Renaissance niché au cœur de Saint-Mathurin-sur-Loire, cette demeure du XVe-XVIIe siècle tire son nom mystérieux d'un bas-relief sculpté évoquant la Passion du Christ, rare témoignage de la ferveur dévotionnelle ligérienne.

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Saumur · Pays de la Loire

Château de Morains

Discrète sentinelle de tuffeau aux portes de Saumur, le château de Morains dévoile l'élégance sobre du gothique flamboyant angevin du XVe siècle, niché dans un terroir où pierre blanche et vignes se répondent depuis six cents ans.

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