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Saint-Renan · Bretagne

Maison Cardinal

A jewel of the Breton Renaissance in Saint-Renan, the Maison Cardinal dazzles with its sculpted corbels and wooden frieze adorned with heads and a royal salamander, a rare example of 16th-century civil architecture.

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Morlaix · Bretagne

Maison dite Le Clique

Built in 1778 by privateer Charles Cornic in the heart of the port of Morlaix, Le Clique house epitomises the golden age of Breton maritime trade, with the remains of its quay and defence platform still visible in the landscape.

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Gout-Rossignol · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Pierre-Es-Liens

Nestled in the Périgord vert, the église Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens de Rossignol reveals a Romanesque chancel from the 12th century crowned by a medieval defensive parapet, a striking testament to the wars that ravaged the Dordogne.

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Beynac-et-Cazenac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Ruines et sol de l'ancien couvent d'Abrillac

Deep in the Perigordian woods, the mediaeval ruins of the prieuré d'Abrillac reveal trefoil windows with small columns and Augustinian vestiges from the 14th century — a fragment of monastic history listed as a Monument historique.

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Les Roches-l'Evêque · Centre-Val de Loire

Chapelle rupestre Saint-Gervais

A sanctuary carved into the cliff face, the Saint-Gervais rock chapel in Les Roches-l'Évêque is home to three exceptional medieval frescoes, including a Romanesque Christ and a rare 12th-century Jacobean scene.

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Thégra · Occitanie

Eglise et sa crypte

In the heart of the Quercy region, this discreet 12th-century Romanesque church has a preserved crypt with an intact medieval altar - an exceptional example of rural Romanesque art in the Lot.

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Souillac · Occitanie

Eglise abbatiale Sainte-Marie

A masterpiece of Romanesque art in the Périgord region, the abbey church of Sainte-Marie de Souillac stuns visitors with its majestic domes and one of the boldest sculpted tympanums of the 12th century.

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Lannilis · Bretagne

Château de Kérouartz

On the edge of the Léon region of Brittany, Château de Kérouartz displays its sober 17th-century elegance at the end of a royal avenue of hundred-year-old beech trees - a kilometre of plant majesty unique in Finistère.

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Sizun · Bretagne

Eglise Saint-Cadou

In the heart of Finistère, the church of Saint-Cadou in Sizun reveals three centuries of Breton architecture combining granite and schist, its Leonardo bell tower and its unusual marbled wooden columns.

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La Force · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château

Poignant remnant of a hexagonal château razed during the Revolution, the pavillon des Recettes de La Force retains four sculpted niches and all the elegance of 17th-century Périgord classical architecture.

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Rostrenen · Bretagne

Fontaine du 16e siècle

In the heart of Rostrenen, this 16th-century Renaissance fountain conceals a solemn pool below ground level, framed by columns and crowned by a mysterious female bust. It has been listed as a Historic Monument since 1909.

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Inzinzac-Lochrist · Bretagne

Dolmen du Bünz

A Neolithic vestige standing in the forest of Lochrist, the Bünz dolmen is a collective burial site dating back more than 5,000 years, listed as a Historic Monument, where rough stone talks with the memory of the first Breton farmers.

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Le Vieux-Marché · Bretagne

Maison de Kergoz

A Breton rural residence dating from 1671, the house at Kergoz combines medieval archaisms with classical sobriety, preserving intact its period domestic fittings: salt cellar, china cabinet, trough and niches.

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Saint-Chels · Occitanie

Dolmen du Mas de Pezet

A Neolithic vestige nestling in the causses of the Lot, the Mas de Pezet dolmen unfurls its age-old limestone slabs in a wild and bewitching landscape, silent testimony to a humanity five millennia old.

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Montreuil-Juigné · Pays de la Loire

Château de la Thibaudière

Au cœur du Maine-et-Loire, la Thibaudière séduit par ses communs anglo-normands à colombages et sa volière en briques nichée dans une cour intérieure, écrin d'une architecture pittoresque du XIXe siècle.

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Longué-Jumelles · Pays de la Loire

Manoir de la Grand'Maison

Niché dans le bocage angevin, le manoir de la Grand'Maison déploie l'élégance discrète de la Renaissance ligérienne : lucarnes sculptées, tourelle d'angle et pierre de tuffeau dorée au soleil couchant.

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Les Esseintes · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Maison du Domaine de Bonsol

In the heart of the Bordeaux region, the Bonsol estate is home to a rare Empire wallpaper attributed to the Dufour manufacture, a masterpiece of interior decoration preserved since 1815-1820.

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Plédéliac · Bretagne

Eglise Saint-Malo

Nestling in the heart of the Côtes-d'Armor region, the church of Saint-Malo in Plédéliac boasts a Renaissance nave dating from 1536, a rare testimony to the artistic vitality of 16th-century Brittany.

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Villac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Maison Salviat

An elegant 16th-century Renaissance residence built of reddish sandstone, the Salviat house in Villac displays a refined architectural vocabulary - fluted pilasters, round arches - in the heart of the Périgord Vert region.

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Carlux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Maison

In the heart of the Périgord Noir region, this medieval house in Carlux boasts a 14th-century Gothic fireplace of rare sophistication: octagonal shaft with colonnettes, pyramidal stone crown, a true jewel of rural Gothic art.

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Crach · Bretagne

Château du Plessis-Kaër

In the heart of Morbihan, the Château du Plessis-Kaër reveals one of the sculpted jewels of the Breton Renaissance: a wooden door with humanist medallions of rare finesse, listed as a Historic Monument.

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Saint-Just · Bretagne

Ensemble mégalithique dénommé menhirs des Pierres Chevêches

In the heart of the Breton moorland, the menhirs of the Pierres Chevêches have been standing silhouetted in schist for over 5,000 years, silent witnesses to one of the densest Neolithic settlements in Armorique.

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Le Vieux-Marché · Bretagne

Chapelle des Sept-Saints

Unique in France, this 18th-century Breton chapel houses a thousand-year-old dolmen beneath its transept, bringing together in one mystical place Celtic prehistory and the Christian legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus.

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Pleumeur-Bodou · Bretagne

Château de Kerduel

An ancient medieval fortress in Brittany's Trégor region, Kerduel hides a two-storey chapel and a mysterious chamber known as "King Arthur's" in its 13th-century pink granite tower.

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