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Notre-Dame-du-Touchet · Normandie
Standing at the crossroads of Normandy's hedged farmland, the Saint-Martin Cross at Notre-Dame-du-Touchet is a rare reminder of medieval rural piety in the Mortain area, and has been listed as a Historic Monument since 1939.
Briec · Bretagne
Nestling in Finistère, this 16th-century Breton chapel boasts a Gothic portal adorned with granite lions and a sculpted Saint-Sébastien, the ancestral guardian of miraculous cures.
Chenillé-Changé · Pays de la Loire
Dernier moulin à roue tournante sur la Mayenne, le moulin de la Chaussée à Chenillé-Changé conjugue six siècles d'histoire meunière, des mécanismes préservés et un écrin de verdure angevin d'une rare authenticité.
Thouarcé · Pays de la Loire
Sentinelle de pierre dressée sur les coteaux de l'Aubance, le Moulin de la Montagne à Thouarcé est un rare témoignage du génie meulier angevin du XIXe siècle, classé pour ses volumes intacts et son implantation viticole exceptionnelle.
Rennes · Bretagne
In the heart of Rennes, this seventeenth-century town house was the sanctuary of Presidents de Robien, members of parliament and exceptional collectors, whose chinoiserie-style woodwork reveals unspoilt refinement.
Angrie · Pays de la Loire
Standing on the heights of Angrie, Moulin Neuf combines a 17th-century schist tower with 19th-century Berton wings. Restored to its original condition, it still turns in the Anjou breeze.
Tréguier · Bretagne
A former 15th-century Breton manor house converted into a farm, the Ferme de Kernabat still boasts an exceptional Gothic portal adorned with carved brackets and braces, a rare example of medieval seigniorial architecture in Tréguier.
Mauzens-et-Miremont · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Perched on a rocky spur in Dordogne, the medieval ruins of Miremont reveal an exceptional defensive system: a keep, a double enclosure and a vaulted right-angled corridor, a remnant of twelfth-century military architecture.
Baneuil · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A masterpiece of 19th-century river engineering, the Lalinde canal winds its way between the Dordogne and the Perigord cliffs. Its Lanquais aqueduct, a daring masonry canal bridge, bears witness to the golden age of inland waterway transport in Périgord.
Saint-Macaire · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A striking medieval vestige in the heart of Saint-Macaire, Maison Messidan reveals a 14th-century cross-vaulted cellar of rare elegance, with its octagonal pillars and large ogival arches opening onto the sky.
Port-Louis · Bretagne
Nestling in the heart of the Papégaut fort in Port-Louis, the Petite Poudrière (1817) is a discreet jewel of Breton military architecture: brick barrel vaulting, rough granite and austere enclosure for a building listed as a Historic Monument in 2023.
Vannes · Bretagne
A former ducal residence in the heart of Vannes, the Château de l'Hermine embodies the power of the Dukes of Brittany in the 15th century, combining Breton sobriety with flamboyant Gothic refinement.
Cahors · Occitanie
Nestling in the hills above Cahors, this former 17th-century hermitage houses a unique gallery with wooden pillars and a chapel with elegantly painted ceilings - a mystical refuge that became Gambetta's country house.
Douarnenez · Bretagne
At the headland of Rosmeur, this former sailor's shelter built in 1912 is a Breton neo-Gothic jewel designed by René Darde. Today it houses the legendary magazine Le Chasse-Marée, a living guardian of maritime memory.
Landéda · Bretagne
At the gateway to Aber Wrac'h, this 16th-century Franciscan convent exudes a pervasive serenity: its fossilised cloister, surviving Romanesque arcades and intact monastic gardens defy five centuries of Breton storms.
Silent witness to the Perigordian Neolithic, this sandstone polisher, listed as a Monument Historique, reveals the everyday gestures of the first farmers of Dordogne, more than 5,000 years ago.
Glénac · Bretagne
Standing in the Redon region, the Cross of Sourdéac is a Breton schist monolith with pattéed arms of rare elegance, listed as a Historic Monument in 1927 for the originality of its size and altar.
Saint-Martin-de-Laye · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
In the heart of the Libournais region, this twelfth-century Romanesque church boasts an elegantly sober cupola on pendentives and a cul-de-four apse, discreet jewels of Aquitaine Romanesque art.
Morlaix · Bretagne
A Breton Renaissance mansion overlooking the quays of Morlaix, Maison Pénanault combines ashlar and terraced gardens to create a striking portrait of 16th-century merchant opulence.
Brech · Bretagne
A Breton Renaissance gem from the 16th century, the Notre-Dame-de-Tréavrec chapel in Brech boasts a façade of rare finesse, with a sculpted frieze of metopes, a ribbed ogival door and a corbelled bell tower.
Penvénan · Bretagne
In the heart of Brittany's Trégor region, the Neolithic burial sites at Penvénan bear witness to a 5,000-year-old funerary civilisation, nestled in a stunningly beautiful coastal landscape.
Portets · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Standing on a Gascon spur facing the Garonne, Château de Portets combines 18th and 19th century architecture with the medieval remains of the fortress of the Lords of Gascq, the silent guardian of an exceptional wine-growing region.
Sainte-Marie · Bretagne
Nestling in the Breton moors, this medieval Latin cross chapel conceals an unsuspected treasure: wall paintings from the early 15th century rediscovered beneath its granite walls, silent witnesses to a thousand-year-old faith.
A discreet jewel of the Bordeaux region, Mongenan reveals an intact 18th-century art of living: preserved period decor, formal gardens and a museum of the life of a squire in the heart of the Graves vineyards.