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Cormatin · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Château de Cormatin

Château de Cormatin is located in the commune of Cormatin in Saône-et-Loire, on an island in the River Grosne. Built in the early 17th century, it retains rare original details such as its staircase and the decoration of certain rooms.

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Saverne · Grand Est

Château de Saverne

The Château des Rohan is a former episcopal castle built at the end of the 18th century by the architect Nicolas Salins de Montfort. It is located in the centre of the town of Saverne, in the Bas-Rhin département, and houses the municipal museums. It has been listed as a World Heritage site on several occasions.

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Sisteron · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Citadelle de Sisteron

At an altitude of 500 m, the citadel of Sisteron overlooks the town of Sisteron - situated at a crossroads between the Dauphiné and Provence regions - and the River Durance. Built on a rocky spur, it is the first thing you see when you arrive in the town. The citadel, with its fortifications, was a stronghold of the town.

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Lembach · Grand Est

Château de Fleckenstein

Fleckenstein Castle [flɛkənʃtaɪn] is a ruined 12th-century semi-troglodyte fortified castle, the remains of which stand in the French commune of Lembach, in the Bas-Rhin département of the Alsace region.

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Orschwiller · Grand Est

Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg

Haut-Koenigsbourg castle - sometimes Haut-Koenigsbourg - is a 12th-century Alsatian fortified castle that underwent major alterations in the 15th century and was restored before the First World War under the reign of William II. The castle stands on the outskirts of the French commune of Orschwiller, in the Alsatian region of Orschwiller.

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Sedan · Grand Est

Château Fort de Sedan

The Château de Sedan or château-haut, which stands in the French commune of Sedan in the French commune of Sedan in the Ardennes department, part of the Grand Est region, is an ancient 15th-century fortified castle that has been enlarged many times and incorporated into Louis XIV's pré carré, a belt of bastioned fortifications that protect the town of Sedan.

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Foix · Occitanie

Château de Foix

Château de Foix is a 12th-century fortified castle whose origins date back to the 10th century. It was altered several times and extensively restored in the 19th century. It stands on a rocky platform overlooking the town of Foix in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region.

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Vogüé · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Château de Vogüé

Château de Vogüé is a former fortified castle, founded in the 12th century and remodelled in the 15th and 17th centuries, which stands in the French commune of Vogüé in the Ardèche département, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Still owned by the de Vogüé family, it has been open to visitors since 197.

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Caen · Normandie

Château de Caen

Caen Castle is a fortified complex in Caen's old city centre, standing on a rocky outcrop in the French commune of Caen, in the Calvados department in the Normandy region. Founded around 1060 by Duke William of Normandy, it has been modified over the centuries.

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Écuillé · Pays de la Loire

Château du Plessis-Bourré

Château du Plessis-Bourré is located in the commune of Écuillé in Maine-et-Loire, around fifteen kilometres north of Angers, halfway between the valleys of the Mayenne and Sarthe rivers. It is one of the Loire châteaux that has undergone few changes to its architecture.

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Les Baux-de-Provence · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Château des Baux-de-Provence

Perched on a limestone spur in the Alpilles mountains, the Château des Baux-de-Provence dominates an exceptional medieval village. A thousand-year-old fortress, it offers breathtaking panoramas and an odyssey into the heart of feudal Provence.

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Duilhac-sous-Peyrepertuse · Occitanie

Château de Peyrepertuse

Château de Peyrepertuse is an ancient Cathar fortress, now in ruins, whose remains stand in the French commune of Duilhac-sous-Peyrepertuse in the Aude département, in the Occitanie region. It is the centre of the micro-country and the former seigneury of Peyrepertusès.

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Les Andelys · Normandie

Château Gaillard

Standing on its rocky outcrop overlooking the Seine, Château Gaillard is Richard the Lionheart's military masterpiece, an indomitable symbol of Franco-English rivalry at the turn of the 13th century.

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Cluny · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Abbaye de Cluny

Once the largest church in Christendom, Cluny Abbey embodies ten centuries of Benedictine influence. Its monumental remains and exceptional museum transport visitors to the heart of the European Middle Ages.

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Montségur · Occitanie

Château de Montségur

The Château de Montségur is a former Cathar fortress, rebuilt in 1206 but remodelled at the end of the 13th century. Its remains stand in the French commune of Montségur in the department of Ariège, in the Occitanie region.

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Pau · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de Pau

The Château de Pau is a castle located in Pau, the prefecture of the French département of Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the région of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Built from the 12th to the 19th century, it was listed as a historic monument in 1840. Since 1927, it has housed the musée national du château de Pau, dedicated to the king of Nava

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Treigny · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Château de Guédelon

At Treigny in the Yonne, Guédelon is a medieval castle that has been under construction since 1997 - a unique experimental construction site that brings 13th-century techniques back to life before the eyes of visitors.

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Nantes · Pays de la Loire

Château des ducs de Bretagne

The Château des Ducs de Bretagne is one of the most emblematic buildings in the French city of Nantes, which was part of the province of Brittany until 1789. Mainly built in the 15th century, but with elements dating from the 14th to 18th centuries, the château was originally a ducal fortress,

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Saumur · Pays de la Loire

Château de Saumur

The Château de Saumur is a château located in the Loire Valley in the French commune of Saumur, in the Maine-et-Loire département, at the confluence of the Loire and Thouet rivers.

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Montsoreau · Pays de la Loire

Château de Montsoreau

Château de Montsoreau is a French Gothic and Renaissance-style château located in the Loire Valley in the commune of Montsoreau, in the south-east of the Maine-et-Loire département in the Pays de la Loire region.

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Corte · Corse

Citadelle de Corte

The citadel of Corte, nicknamed the eagle's nest, is an 18th-century citadel built around a 15th-century castle in Corte in Haute-Corse, classified as a historic monument on 10 August 1977 and a "Corsican museum" since 1984.

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Ancy-le-Franc · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Château d'Ancy-le-Franc

The Château d'Ancy-le-Franc (1538-1546), located in the commune of Ancy-le-Franc in the French department of Yonne in Burgundy, is an architectural work by Italian architect Sebastiano Serlio, built for Antoine III de Clermont (1498-1578), brother-in-law of Diane de Poitiers.

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Saint-Denis · Île-de-France

Basilique de Saint-Denis

France's royal necropolis and the cradle of Gothic architecture, the basilica of Saint-Denis is home to a thousand years of monarchy and some of the finest recumbent figures in medieval funerary art.

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Marmagne · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Abbaye de Fontenay

Fontenay Abbey is a Cistercian abbey founded in 1118 in the French commune of Marmagne, in the Côte-d'Or département and the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. It is located at the confluence of the Combe Saint-Bernard and the valley of the Fontenay stream.