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Saint-Etienne-de-Lisse · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Habitat fortifié de Niord (château Fombrauge)

A Celtic fortress from the Iron Age dominating the Saint-Émilion vineyards, Niord fascinates visitors with its protohistoric ramparts, unique in the South-West - a 2,500-year journey to the heart of the first civilisations of Aquitaine.

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Tauriac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Etienne

The Romanesque jewel of the Gironde, the church of Saint-Étienne de Tauriac boasts an Angoumois-style façade and exceptional sculpted capitals, one of which illustrates the martyrdom of its patron saint with striking intensity.

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Séné · Bretagne

Croix de la Brassée

A granite sentinel standing on the ancient Vannes-Nantes road, the Croix de la Brassée is a monolith over three metres high, a masterpiece of the Breton cross between Romanesque art and popular devotion.

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Plouay · Bretagne

Chapelle Notre-Dame des Fleurs

Nestling in the Morbihan region of Brittany, this 16th-century Breton chapel boasts an elegant polygonal apse and enigmatic, frustrated sculptures that bear witness to a fascinating, unfinished architectural ambition.

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Peumerit-Quintin · Bretagne

Chapelle du Loch

Nestling in the heart of inland Brittany, the Chapelle du Loch features remarkable 16th-century sculpted sandstones and mysterious altars carved from a large granite altarpiece, testimony to Breton art of rare delicacy.

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Jarzé · Pays de la Loire

Chapelle de Montplacé

Perchée sur les hauteurs de Jarzé, la chapelle de Montplacé déploie son élégance classique du Grand Siècle en pleine campagne angevine. Un joyau discret classé Monument Historique depuis 1950.

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Le Faouët · Bretagne

Vieilles halles

A medieval jewel of Breton framework, the Vieilles Halles du Faouët (Old Market Halls of Le Faouët) boasts three naves of wood and granite in the heart of inland Brittany - a masterpiece of rural architecture listed since 1914.

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Arles · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Hôpital Joseph Imbert, quartier de Fourchon

Joyau architectural du modernisme français, l'hôpital Joseph Imbert d'Arles (1965-1974) révèle le génie de Paul Nelson, pionnier américain du brutalisme humaniste élève d'Auguste Perret.

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Mézières-sur-Couesnon · Bretagne

Château de la Sécardais

In the heart of deepest Brittany, La Sécardais combines a Gothic chapel dating from 1608 and an 18th-century attic house - a discreet setting that Châteaubriand himself loved to visit.

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Saint-Urbain · Bretagne

Ensemble cultuel de Trévarn

Nestling in the heart of Finistère, the chapel at Trévarn combines Breton fervour with late Baroque elegance. Its calvary with figures, restored by Roland Doré, and its dated inscriptions make it an outstanding heritage jewel.

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Fons · Occitanie

Château du Roc

Standing on the limestone plateaux of the Quercy region, the Château du Roc has stood with its three Renaissance towers since 1570, combining the austere nobility of Lot limestone with the discreet grace of late Valois architecture.

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

Bastide la Torse dite aussi château de la Torse

Nichée dans la campagne aixoise, la bastide de la Torse incarne l'art de vivre provençal du XVIIIe siècle : façade ocre rythmée de pilastres, allées de platanes centenaires et jardins à la française hérités du Grand Siècle.

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Questembert · Bretagne

Fontaine de Bréhardec

An eighteenth-century stone structure nestling in the Morbihan, the Bréhardec fountain, with its elegant columns, stands in the heart of Questembert, a rare example of classical Breton fountain art.

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Pacé · Bretagne

Eglise Sainte-Mélaine

Nestling in the heart of Pacé, the church of Sainte-Mélaine boasts a 15th-century portal with capitals carved with foliage and faces, while its southern façade features fern-leaf bonding dating back to the 11th century.

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Creysse · Occitanie

Moulin de Cacrey

A fortified medieval mill perched at the foot of a limestone cliff in Quercy, the Moulin de Cacrey draws its water from a natural resurgence in the Dordogne, and still retains its original cast-iron millstones and turbines.

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Ploudaniel · Bretagne

Pierre cultuelle gauloise (lec'h hémisphérique)

In the heart of Finistère, this hemispherical Gallic lec'h from Ploudaniel is one of the rare lapidary testimonies to the Breton protohistoric cult, a cult stone listed as a Historic Monument since 1950.

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Bignan · Bretagne

Eglise Saint-Pierre Saint-Paul

A rare example of a classical church in Brittany, Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul in Bignan reveals an unexpected neo-classical elegance, the result of a century of hard work begun on the plans of a visionary rector in 1787.

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Fargues-Saint-Hilaire · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de Beauséjour

A rococo jewel of the Bordeaux region, Château de Beauséjour (1734) captivates with its canted front section and refined attic, a rare example of 18th-century French elegance in the Gironde.

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Esquibien · Bretagne

Camp protohistorique de Suguensou

Perched on the heights of Cap Sizun, the protohistoric Suguensou camp with its earthen and stone ramparts faces the Atlantic - a striking vestige of the Breton Iron Age, listed as a Historic Monument.

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Cornillé-les-Caves · Pays de la Loire

Maison de maître de la Charpenterie

Élégante maison de maître néo-classique du début du XIXe siècle, la Charpenterie conserve à Cornillé-les-Caves son ensemble de dépendances intact, couronné d'une rare tour fabrique témoignant du goût romantique de l'époque.

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Martel · Occitanie

Ancienne église Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens de Gluges

Carved into the side of a cliff in the heart of the Dordogne Gorge, this medieval cave church in Gluges still has its 12th-century Romanesque modillions, a striking vestige of a faith carved into the rock.

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Plobannalec · Bretagne

Dolmen de Kervignon et bande de terrain autour du dolmen

A Neolithic vestige from Finistère, the Kervignon dolmen has stood with its granite orthostats in the Bigouden landscape for over 5,000 years - a stone silence listed as a Historic Monument in 1922.

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Brennilis · Bretagne

Calvaire de Nestavel

Nestavel Calvary in Brennilis, deep in Finistère, features a Pietà surrounded by figures sculpted in the 16th century, crowned by Christ and the Eternal Father - a jewel of Breton statuary listed since 1928.

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Sarlat-la-Canéda · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Ancien Hôtel-Dieu

Built in 1632 by a prominent archdeacon from Sarlat, this former hôtel-Dieu conceals behind its pilastered doorway an interior courtyard adorned with a corbelled bartisan and a shell-headed niche of singular elegance.

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