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Rouffignac-Saint-Cernin-de-Reilhac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de l'Herm

Majestic ruin immersed in the forests of the Périgord, the château de l'Herm captivates with its sculpted Renaissance doorways and its tragic fate immortalised by Eugène Le Roy in 'Jacquou le Croquant'.

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Saint-Sulpice-et-Cameyrac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Cameyrac

A fourteenth-century stone sentinel in the Gironde, the église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Cameyrac reveals a bell tower designed for defence and a transept with chapels added over the centuries — a rare testament to the religious and military architecture of the medieval Bordelais.

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Chênehutte-Trèves-Cunault · Pays de la Loire

Chapelle Saint-Macé

Nichée dans le Val de Loire, la chapelle Saint-Macé de Chênehutte-Trèves-Cunault est un joyau roman classé dès 1862, témoin silencieux de la spiritualité médiévale en Anjou, au cœur d'un paysage ligérien d'une rare sérénité.

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Saint-Philbert-du-Peuple · Pays de la Loire

Château d’Etiau

Nestling in the Anjou bocage, Château d'Etiau boasts the sober, elegant volumes typical of seigniorial architecture in Maine-et-Loire, and was recently listed as a Historic Monument in 2023.

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Marseille · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Ilot urbain grec du Collège du Vieux-Port

Beneath the heart of Marseilles, a 2,600-year-old Greek island emerges from the ground: adobe walls with painted plasterwork, monumental basements and banqueting crockery, shattering vestiges of the original Massalia.

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Saint-Rémy-la-Varenne · Pays de la Loire

Manoir de Chauvigné

Nestling in the Loire Valley of Anjou, the manor house of Chauvigné unfurls its Gothic and Renaissance volumes over four centuries of tufa stone, a rare testimony to a rural aristocracy attached to its land.

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Paimpol · Bretagne

Chapelle Notre-Dame de Kergrist

Nestling in the Paimpol countryside, Notre-Dame de Kergrist chapel tells the story of five centuries of Breton history, from its flamboyant Gothic door to its 16th-century calvary with its hieratic figures of rare sobriety.

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Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Cimetière israélite

Founded in 1728, this Portuguese cemetery is the oldest Jewish burial ground in Bordeaux. Its Hebrew headstones and its doorway with a relieving arch bear witness to an exceptional communal history.

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

Ancien hôtel de Glandevès

In the heart of Aix-en-Provence, the Hôtel de Glandevès displays the sober elegance of noble Provencal architecture, with its ordered façade and majestic volumes typical of the great Aix century.

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Guerlesquin · Bretagne

Prétoire ou prison seigneuriale

In the heart of Guerlesquin, the 17th-century Praetorium embodies Breton seigneurial justice in all its rigour: court and prison united under the same granite roof, a monument unique of its kind in Finistère.

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Bègles · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de Francs ou des Douze Portes

At the gates of Bordeaux, the château de Francs reveals its medieval remains and its Renaissance mullioned windows, a silent guardian of a legendary royal stay in 1565.

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Granville · Normandie

Forme de radoub du port de Granville

A jewel of Victorian engineering in Granville, this dovetailed granite dry dock has a very special feature: it empties itself thanks to the Channel's high tides, without any pumps.

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Lagorce · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Pierre

Nestled in the heart of the Gironde village of Lagorce, the église Saint-Pierre displays the austere beauty of 12th-century Saintonge Romanesque architecture: a sculpted façade, single nave, and bell-wall characteristic of a sober and profound sacred art.

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Plédran · Bretagne

Camp de Péran

A Viking fortress rising out of the Breton bocage, the Camp de Péran is one of the rare examples of Scandinavian fortification preserved in France, a silent witness to the Norman raids of the 9th century.

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Martigues · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Ecole maternelle de Ferrières

A discreet masterpiece of post-war industrial architecture, this nursery school by Jean Prouvé combines folded steel, glass and aluminium in a bold manifesto of modern modular construction.

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Marquay · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de Puymartin

A medieval fortress in the Périgord Noir, Puymartin fascinates visitors with its machicolated towers, trompe-l'œil paintings from the 17th century and the spellbinding legend of the Lady in White.

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Gémenos · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Abbaye de Saint-Pons

Nestling in the wooded valley of Gémenos, Saint-Pons Abbey reveals a Cistercian architecture of rare serenity, where the silence of the medieval ruins converses with the luxuriance of the Provencal garrigue.

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Lanouée · Bretagne

Croix des prêtres

Erected in the 15th century in the heart of the Morbihan region, the Cross of the Priests of Lanouée displays a sculpted programme of rare quality on both sides: Christ on the Cross on one side, a crowned Virgin and Child on the other.

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Terrasson-Lavilledieu · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Grotte préhistorique de Saint-Sours ou de Lachaud

Nestled in the limestone cliffs of the Vézère valley, the grotte de Lachaud reveals the secrets of Magdalenian artists: a Palaeolithic rock sanctuary listed as a Monument Historique since 1948.

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Visseiche · Bretagne

Eglise Saint-Pierre

In the heart of the Breton bocage, the church of Saint-Pierre de Visseiche contains two 16th-century stained glass windows of rare emotion: the Passion of Christ and a lord kneeling before the Virgin, evidence of an intact noble faith and patronage.

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Saint-Sauveur-Lendelin · Normandie

Eglise

Set in the heart of the Cotentin region, the church of Saint-Sauveur-Lendelin has displayed its sober Norman Gothic elegance since the 14th century. It is listed as a Historic Monument for the remarkable quality of its local sandstone masonry.

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

Caserne Forbin

An eighteenth-century military jewel in the heart of Aix-en-Provence, the Forbin barracks embody classic Provençal architecture in all its rigour - golden stone, sober layout and regimental history written in stone.

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Guingamp · Bretagne

Eglise Notre-Dame du Bon-Secours

The flamboyant Gothic jewel of Guingamp, Notre-Dame du Bon-Secours houses a black Virgin venerated since the Middle Ages and a façade that boldly combines dark stone and white marble.

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Vannes · Bretagne

Croix du 16e siècle située près de la chapelle du Rohic

Erected in the 16th century near the Rohic chapel in Vannes, this four-metre granite banner cross features a remarkable iconography: Crucifixion, Pietà and Saint-Michel sculpted with a rare Breton expressiveness.

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