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Pontivy · Bretagne

Chapelle de la Houssaye

Nestling in Pontivy, the chapel of La Houssaye reveals two centuries of Breton architecture: a rare medieval rood screen and a striking dialogue between two chapels united under the same gable.

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Réville · Normandie

Château

In the heart of the Cotentin region, this 16th-18th-century château blends Louis XV elegance with classic Norman rigour, revealing an unspoilt period salon in an unspoilt stone setting.

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La Renaudière · Pays de la Loire

Menhir du moulin à vent de Normandeau

A stone sentinel raised over 5,000 years ago, the menhir of the Moulin à Vent de Normandeau stands alone in the Anjou bocage, a striking vestige of prehistoric mankind sculpting the land.

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Grand-Brassac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Gisement préhistorique de Rochereil ou Rochereuil

On the edge of the Périgord region, the Rochereil cave boasts one of the finest collections of Magdalenian furniture art in France, with its engraved pebbles and strikingly fine animal representations.

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Quintin · Bretagne

Fontaine de Notre-Dame de la Porte

Nestling beneath a Breton chapel, this 15th-century Gothic fountain reveals traces of medieval painting and a sculpted tympanum with creeping arcatures - a stone sanctuary hidden away from time.

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Baigneaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Croix de cimetière du 16e siècle

Erected in the heart of the Baigneaux cemetery, this 16th-century cross displays its soberly eloquent sculpted instruments of the Passion. A rare example of Renaissance funerary devotion in the Gironde.

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Ploërmel · Bretagne

Croix de Villenard

Standing in the heart of Brittany in the Morbihan region, the Villenard cross is a soberly majestic shale monolith, a precious vestige of popular medieval faith that has been listed as a Historic Monument since 1927.

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Angers · Pays de la Loire

Institution Mongazon

Joyau néo-grec niché au cœur d'Angers, la chapelle de l'Institution Mongazon déploie ses peintures murales somptueuses signées Langlois et ses vitraux de Clamens dans un écrin classique d'une rare élégance.

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Tressignaux · Bretagne

Croix du 18e siècle

Standing in the heart of the Trégor region, this monumental 18th-century cross embodies Breton religious fervour in all its finesse: a slender shaft, a sculpted calvary and local granite with the patina of three centuries of history.

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Josselin · Bretagne

Maison datée de 1602

A jewel of medieval Josselin, this timber-framed house dating from 1602 features sculpted corbels above a masonry ground floor, a rare example of Breton domestic architecture at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries.

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Pleurtuit · Bretagne

Domaine de Montmarin

Perched on the heights of the Rance, the Montmarin estate is an 18th-century jewel of the Malouin region, where classical terraces and romantic landscaped grounds blend into an exceptional river panorama.

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Quimperlé · Bretagne

Maison de retraite du Bourgneuf

In the heart of Quimperlé, this listed 15th-century medieval house reveals the secrets of Breton civil architecture, with its granite corbels and exceptional mullioned windows.

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Fontvieille · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Grotte-Dolmen du Castelet ou du Forgerin

Aux portes de la Camargue, la grotte-dolmen du Castelet livre ses secrets vieux de 5 000 ans : un monument funéraire chalcolithique creusé dans la molasse provençale, témoin rare de l'âme mystérieuse des Alpilles.

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Anneville-en-Saire · Normandie

Château dit Maison d'Anneville

An elegant 18th-century Norman residence nestling in the heart of the Cotentin peninsula, the Maison d'Anneville boasts sober, classical architecture set in an unspoilt hedged farmland.

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Donnezac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Monument aux morts de la guerre 1914-1918, situé devant la mairie et les écoles

In Donnezac, a striking bronze embodies the pain of a nation: "Le Soldat mourant" (The Dying Soldier) by Jules Déchin, cast by the Durenne workshops in 1920, is one of the most moving commemorative monuments in the Gironde.

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Plougasnou · Bretagne

Manoir de Tromelin

Nestling in deep Finistère, the manor house of Tromelin displays its sober Breton elegance of the 16th century: a round tower with a conical roof and a remarkable door in the form of a flowered bracket bear witness to late flamboyant Gothic art.

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Bonzac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Croix du cimetière

A 16th-century stone sentinel, the cross in the Bonzac cemetery fascinates with its shaft adorned with pinnacled buttresses and bas-reliefs of rare finesse - a masterpiece of late Gothic sculpture in the Gironde.

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Coron · Pays de la Loire

Menhir dit La Pierre des Hommes

Sentinelle de pierre dressée depuis le Néolithique au cœur du Saumurois, La Pierre des Hommes de Coron est l'un des menhirs les mieux conservés du Maine-et-Loire, chargé de mystères et de légendes ancestrales.

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Marseille · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Villa Magalone

Nichée dans un écrin de verdure à Marseille, la Villa Magalone est un joyau discret du tournant des XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles, dont les jardins à la française ont été magnifiés au XIXe siècle par le célèbre paysagiste Édouard André.

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Saint-Marcel · Bretagne

Croix du Champ-des-Morts

A granite sentinel since the 17th century, the Cross of the Field of the Dead offers a striking iconography: Crucifixion on one side, Pietà surrounded by two holy women on the other, all erected on a stone altar.

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Pluvigner · Bretagne

Chapelle Notre-Dame-des-Orties

Nestling in the Morbihan region, the Notre-Dame-des-Orties chapel reveals seven centuries of Breton architecture, from the Romanesque choir to the flamboyant Gothic nave - a discreet jewel listed as a Historic Monument.

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Locoal-Mendon · Bretagne

Dolmen à galerie à support gravé de Mané-er-Loh, dit Mané-Bras

On the edge of Morbihan, Mané-Bras features a Neolithic burial chamber decorated with an exceptional engraved support - one of the few gallery dolmens in the Pays d'Auray to still reveal its secrets engraved in stone.

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Grez-Neuville · Pays de la Loire

Château de la Grandière

Niché au cœur du val d'Anjou, le château de la Grandière déploie son élégance entre corps de logis Renaissance et remaniements classiques du XVIIIe siècle, dominant avec discrétion les rives paisibles de la Mayenne.

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Terrasson-Lavilledieu · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Sour

Flamboyant Gothic jewel of the Périgord, the église Saint-Sour de Terrasson-Lavilledieu preserves the splendour of a Benedictine abbey built at the close of the 15th century, featuring medieval recumbent effigies and Romanesque capitals that survived the Wars of Religion.

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