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Sarzeau · Bretagne

Maison Renaissance située sur la place au Sud de l'église

In the heart of Sarzeau, this Renaissance house dating from 1622 boasts a granite dormer window of rare elegance: sculpted pilasters, escutcheon crowned with foliage and a circular pediment engraved with a date that defies the centuries.

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Arcambal · Occitanie

Château du Bousquet

Perched on a spur overlooking the Lot, Château du Bousquet boasts an intact thousand-year-old keep and a fortified medieval silhouette, with Gothic cross-arches and irregular circular towers.

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Montignac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Hôtel de Bouilhac

At the heart of Montignac, this 17th-century private mansion spreads its elegant U-shaped layout around a courtyard enclosed by an ornate iron gate, preserving precious painted decorations from the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Ribagnac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Domaine du Château de Bridoire

Standing on its rocky spur in the Périgord region, Bridoire boasts five machicolated towers and a medieval châtelet that survived the Wars of Religion - a castle of character where Père de Foucauld lived.

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Erquy · Bretagne

Viaduc de Caroual

Looming over the Breton moors, the Caroual viaduct embodies the pioneering genius of reinforced concrete in the 20th century. A masterpiece of the engineer Harel de la Noë, it sublimates the Erquy coastal landscape with striking industrial elegance.

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Montrem · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens

In the heart of the Périgord region, the church of Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens in Montrem reveals a 12th-century Romanesque sanctuary of rare purity: a dome on pendentives, an apse with an arcature and sculpted capitals of striking sobriety.

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Dinard · Bretagne

Maison dite du Prince Noir

A medieval vestige of Dinard, this 14th-century house is said to have sheltered the Black Prince during his campaigns in Brittany. Its cut granite stones tell the story of the Hundred Years' War on the Emerald Coast.

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Plémy · Bretagne

Manoir de Vauclerc

A seigniorial vestige on the borders of Brittany, the manor of Vauclerc in Plémy reveals a Renaissance doorway with sculpted finials and the ghostly silhouettes of its vanished towers, markers of a forgotten power.

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Ouessant · Bretagne

Phare de Nividic

A steel sentinel planted in the rushing waters of the Fromveur, the Nividic lighthouse is a twentieth-century feat of engineering: the first automated lighthouse in the world, it has been keeping watch over the Ouessant coast since the 1930s.

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Oulches · Centre-Val de Loire

Prieuré Notre-Dame de Longefont

Nestling on the banks of the River Creuse, this 12th-century fontevrist priory boasts Romanesque capitals of rare elegance and the moving remains of nine hundred years of female monastic life.

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Loubens · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Moulin de Loubens (également sur commune de Landerrouet-sur-Ségur)

A fortified flour mill dating from the 14th century, formerly owned by the Abbey of La Réole, this stone colossus rises up above the Dropt in a raised gallery, a striking testimony to the medieval milling industry in Aquitaine.

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Beaumont · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de Luzier

At the edge of the Périgord, the château de Luzier blends medieval remains with a lavish classical recomposition, with its monumental seventeenth-century porch guarded by two crouching stone lions — an unforgettable first impression.

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Chaleix · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de Mavaleix

Nestling near an ancient Périgord forge, Château de Mavaleix features pyramid-shaped towers and an uninterrupted sentry walk, a striking reminder of the Middle Ages rebuilt in the 16th century.

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Ploumilliau · Bretagne

Calvaire du 18e siècle

Standing in the heart of Ploumilliau, this 18th-century Breton calvary, listed as a Historic Monument, embodies the religious fervour and sculptural genius of Cornish funerary art.

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Arles · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Château de la Jansonne

Joyau discret de la Camargue arlésienne, le château de la Jansonne déploie l'élégance sobre du classicisme provençal du XVIIIe siècle, entre bastide de maître et demeure seigneuriale nichée dans un paysage de lumière dorée.

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Remungol · Bretagne

Fontaine Sainte-Julitte et son enceinte

Nestling in Remungol, this 16th-century votive fountain boasts a granite architecture of rare elegance, with a gable featuring sculpted hooks, engaged columns and sacred statues watching over an ancestral spring.

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Champteussé-sur-Baconne · Pays de la Loire

Eglise

Nichée au cœur du bocage angevin, l'église de Champteussé-sur-Baconne dévoile huit siècles d'histoire dans ses pierres, mêlant austérité romane et délicatesse des adjonctions Renaissance et classiques.

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Bubry · Bretagne

Chapelle Saint-Yves

A Gothic-Renaissance jewel in the Morbihan region, the chapel of Saint-Yves de Bubry captivates visitors with its slender gables, soaring tower and Renaissance details that are unusually elegant for a 16th-century Breton chapel.

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Moëlan-sur-Mer · Bretagne

Allée couverte

A Neolithic relic in Moëlan-sur-Mer, this Breton covered walkway bears witness to a 5,000-year-old mastery of funerary architecture, nestled in the wild landscape of southern Finistère.

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Guerlesquin · Bretagne

Menhir de Kerellou

A stone sentinel that has stood guard over the moors of the Trégor region of Finistère since Neolithic times, the Kerellou menhir has stood watch over Guerlesquin for over 5,000 years. A rare and striking listed megalithic monument.

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Cambayrac · Occitanie

Eglise

In the heart of the Quercy Blanc region, Cambayrac church reveals a rare blend of Romanesque and Baroque decoration: polychrome marble and framed 18th-century paintings enhance a building that dates back to the 12th century.

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Marseille · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Palais de la Bourse

Joyau néoclassique du Vieux-Port, la Bourse de Marseille déploie une façade monumentale signée Coste et des intérieurs ornés par les maîtres du Second Empire — temple du commerce érigé en monument d'État.

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Augan · Bretagne

Château de la Grée de Callac

The last of Brittany's neo-Renaissance châteaux, built between 1892 and 1908 for the Count du Bot, La Grée de Callac impresses with its entire estate - chateau, chapel, stables and orangery - preserved in its original state.

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Carnac · Bretagne

Deux dolmens à galerie de Kerlagade

Nestling in the megalithic plain of Carnac, the two Kerlagade gallery dolmens have been standing with their imposing granite slabs for over 5,000 years, silent witnesses to a Neolithic civilisation of disturbing sophistication.

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