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Saint-Jean-Trolimon · Bretagne

Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Tronoën

A jewel of Breton Gothic architecture, Notre-Dame-de-Tronoën chapel is home to Brittany's oldest monumental calvary, a striking reminder of popular medieval piety on the windswept moors.

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Châteaugiron · Bretagne

Château, actuellement mairie

A medieval fortress on the marches of Brittany, Châteaugiron boasts five centuries of military architecture: a 13th-century keep, the Clock Tower and its elegant bell tower, and a Romanesque chapel. A living castle, now the beating heart of the town.

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Somloire · Pays de la Loire

Château

Nestling in the Anjou bocage, Château de Somloire reveals the sober elegance of the Loire Renaissance: corner turrets, sculpted dormer windows and moats bear witness to an aristocratic way of life in the 16th century.

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Quiberon · Bretagne

Tertre tumulaire

A stone sentinel erected on the Quiberon peninsula since the Neolithic period, this burial mound bears witness to the burial rites of the first Breton peasants, set against a backdrop of Atlantic moorland.

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Lanvaudan · Bretagne

Puits et niche du Lion

In Lanvaudan, a well with a coping from 1803 and a mysterious niche from 1701 surmounted by a heraldic lion in Breton granite make up a sculpted ensemble of rare singularity.

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Cizay-la-Madeleine · Pays de la Loire

Prieuré de la Madeleine (ancien)

Nestling in the bocage of the Saumur region, the former priory of the Madeleine de Cizay, with its tufa stone walls, is a rare example of medieval monastic life preserved in the heart of Anjou.

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Plédéliac · Bretagne

Allée couverte et alignement de menhirs indicateurs de Saint-André

At the heart of Brittany's origins, the covered alley and line of menhirs at Saint-André in Plédéliac make up a Neolithic megalithic complex of rare coherence, silent testimony to a building civilisation dating back five millennia.

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La Roche-Derrien · Bretagne

Eglise Sainte-Catherine

The Romanesque and Gothic jewel of northern Brittany, the church of Sainte-Catherine de La Roche-Derrien reveals two centuries of faith and stone. Listed as a Historic Monument since 1913, it is nestled in a medieval village that has had a turbulent history.

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Saint-Pey-d'Armens · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Croix de cimetière

Erected in the cemetery of Saint-Pey-d'Armens, this Renaissance cross from the 16th century, listed as a Monument Historique since 1907, bears witness to Bordelais funerary piety with a remarkable limestone sculpture.

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Concarneau · Bretagne

Ancienne caserne Hervo

A 16th-century military vestige nestling in the heart of Concarneau's walled town, the former Hervo barracks bear witness to Brittany's defensive organisation at the time of the Wars of Religion and the first major port restructuring.

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Libourne · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Hôtel de ville

Gothic and Renaissance jewel enthroned on the covered main square of Libourne, this town hall with its two imposing towers embodies eight centuries of municipal history at the heart of a Girondine medieval bastide.

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Auray · Bretagne

Prieuré de Saint-Cado

Nestling in Brittany's Morbihan region, the priory of Saint-Cado boasts a flamboyant-Renaissance portal of rare finesse, crowned with sculpted gargoyles, the remains of an eight-century-old female monastic community.

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Salon-de-Provence · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Immeuble

In the heart of Salon-de-Provence, this listed building bears witness to Provençal civil architecture at its best: rhythmic facades, gilded ashlar and sculpted decor typical of the urban heritage of the city of Nostradamus.

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Coutances · Normandie

Cathédrale Notre-Dame

A jewel of Norman Gothic architecture, Notre-Dame de Coutances cathedral's two spires soar 75 metres into the Cotentin sky, creating an octagonal lantern tower unrivalled in France.

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Carsac-Aillac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Gisement préhistorique du Pech de l'Azé

In the wooded hills of the Périgord Noir, the Pech de l'Azé reveals Neanderthal caves of exceptional richness: bones, hearths and Acheulean tools more than 100,000 years old.

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Mareuil-en-Périgord · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Etienne

At the heart of the Périgord Vert, the église Saint-Étienne de Mareuil displays its authentic twelfth-century Romanesque style: an imposing porch tower, a distinctive flat chevet, and a stone simplicity that defies the centuries.

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Elliant · Bretagne

Cairn mégalithique avec dolmens

A major Neolithic remnant in Finistère, this megalithic cairn in Elliant is home to several dolmens buried beneath an imposing stone tumulus, a striking testimony to the burial practices of our distant Breton ancestors.

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Rostrenen · Bretagne

Chapelle de Locmaria

The chapel at Locmaria, an ancient treviary church nestling in the heart of the Kreiz-Breizh region, boasts a lierne vault decorated with the dove of the Holy Spirit, a rare example of late-Breton Baroque.

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La Chapelle-sur-Oudon · Pays de la Loire

Presbytère (ancien)

A discreet gem in the Maine-et-Loire region, this former 17th-18th century presbytery embodies the sober elegance of Anjou's rural religious architecture, and has been protected as a Historic Monument since 1976.

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Bourbriac · Bretagne

Manoir du Lézard

Nestling in the Trégor countryside, Manoir du Lézard's 17th-century granite facades bear discreet but striking witness to Breton seigneurial architecture at its height.

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Etienville · Normandie

Eglise

In the heart of the Cotentin region, the church at Étienville unfolds seven centuries of Norman history, from its robust 13th-century Gothic arcades to its classical 18th-century alterations, a sober and touching testimony to rural faith.

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Pondaurat · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Maison à contreforts

A rare medieval vestige in the heart of the Gironde, this buttressed house retains its corner watchtowers and transom bays, silent witnesses to a thousand-year-old Antonine monastery on the road to Compostela.

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Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Seurin

Guardian of the Christian soul of Bordeaux since the 5th century, Saint-Seurin reveals a Romanesque portal with historiated capitals, an early Christian crypt, and centuries of layered faith within a breathtaking sanctuary.

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Saint-Malo · Bretagne

Hôtel de la Gicquelais (maison natale de Chateaubriand)

In the narrow streets of Saint-Malo, the Hôtel de la Gicquelais stands guard over the memory of Chateaubriand. This sober and austere 17th-century residence in Saint-Malo was the birthplace of the father of French Romanticism on 4 September 1768.

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