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Plouër-sur-Rance · Bretagne

Allée couverte de Bel Evan ou Bellevan

A Neolithic vestige buried in the Breton soil of Plouër-sur-Rance, the Bel Evan covered walkway unfurls its thousand-year-old granite slabs in an almost sacred silence, a rare testimony to a megalithic civilisation now listed as a Historic Monument.

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Tarascon · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Hôtel dit Léautaud de Mas Blanc

Au cœur de Tarascon, l'hôtel Léautaud de Mas Blanc dévoile la splendeur discrète de l'aristocratie provençale, avec sa façade baroque et ses décors intérieurs d'une élégance raffinée, témoins d'un art de vivre à la française.

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Fontvieille · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Oratoire Saint-Roch et Saint-Victor

Discret joyau baroque provençal du début du XVIIIe siècle, l'oratoire Saint-Roch-et-Saint-Victor veille sur Fontvieille depuis trois cents ans, alliant dévotion populaire et raffinement sculptural typique des Alpilles.

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Saint-Marc-le-Blanc · Bretagne

Maison de prêtre

Nestling in Saint-Marc-le-Blanc, this 16th-century priest's house epitomises Breton domestic architecture of the Renaissance period, with its sober granite volumes and sculpted details of rare elegance for a building of this modest purpose.

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Tréguier · Bretagne

Hôtel de la Tour

A striking vestige of the Breton medieval episcopate, the Hôtel de la Tour in Tréguier boasts a sculpted 15th-century portal, a miraculous survivor of the League wars that ravaged the former palace in 1594.

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Saint-André-d'Allas · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château du Roc

Nestled in the Périgord Noir, the Château du Roc displays its elegant Louis XV façade between two pavilions set at right angles, enhanced by an exceptional wrought ironwork balcony and a majestic rounded gate.

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Ravenoville · Normandie

Ancienne redoute

A stone sentinel facing the English Channel, this 17th-century coastal redoubt is the embodiment of Louis XIV's coastal defence policy, which has watched over the shores of the Cotentin peninsula for three centuries.

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Les Verchers-sur-Layon · Pays de la Loire

Château d'Echuilly

Niché dans le bocage angevin, le château d'Échuilly déploie l'élégance sobre du classicisme français du XVIIIe siècle, entre façades ordonnancées et douces collines du Layon.

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Lamballe · Bretagne

Croix sculptée

A 14th-century sculpted cross, a stone sentinel in the Lamballe cemetery: a masterpiece of Breton Gothic, listed as a Historic Monument, where medieval faith and funerary art combine with striking sobriety.

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Le Sel-de-Bretagne · Bretagne

Menhir du Champ de la Pierre et menhir du Champ Horel

Stone sentinels erected since Neolithic times, the menhirs of Champ de la Pierre and Champ Horel stand watch over the hedged farmland of Ille-et-Vilaine, silent witnesses to a sacred Brittany five thousand years old.

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Gennes · Pays de la Loire

Menhir dénommé Pierre Longue

Sentinelle de pierre dressée aux confins du Val d'Anjou, la Pierre Longue de Gennes est l'un des menhirs les mieux conservés du Maine-et-Loire, témoignage silencieux d'une humanité vieille de cinq millénaires.

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Poullan-sur-Mer · Bretagne

Menhir de Tréota

A stone sentinel that has stood guard over the Finistère region since Neolithic times, the Tréota menhir stands at the gateway to Poullan-sur-Mer, a solitary and striking vestige of a humanity that was already sculpting the landscape over 5,000 years ago.

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Saint-Etienne-du-Gué-de-l'Isle · Bretagne

Croix du nouveau cimetière

Erected in the 16th century, this Breton cemetery cross fascinates with its high-relief sculptures: a Christ on the cross on one side, a Virgin and Child on the other, supported by a circular shaft with soberly carved facets.

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Riec-sur-Belon · Bretagne

Dolmen de Kerscao

A megalithic vestige nestling in the Riec-sur-Belon region, the Kerscao dolmen has been raising its granite orthostats to the Breton sky for over five thousand years, a silent testimony to the first builders of Armorique.

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Castelnau-Montratier · Occitanie

Site archéologique des ruines gallo-romaines du Souquet

In the heart of the Quercy region, the Gallo-Roman ruins of Souquet reveal an exceptional monumental complex: almost half a hectare of ancient buildings of remarkable quality, the enigmatic remains of a vanished civilisation.

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Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys · Bretagne

Dolmen situé près du port dit Port aux Moines

Standing guard over the Morbihan Sea, this Neolithic dolmen at Port aux Moines bears witness to a human presence on the Rhuys peninsula dating back over five millennia.

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Lanrigan · Bretagne

Château

A granite sentinel in the heart of Brittany, Lanrigan castle reveals seven centuries of architectural stratification, from the medieval feudal motte to the elegant Gothic facades of the 16th century.

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La Guerche-de-Bretagne · Bretagne

Maisons

In the heart of La Guerche-de-Bretagne, these 16th-century timber-framed houses feature carved porches and chequered half-timbering, rare examples of Renaissance civil architecture in Upper Brittany.

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

Monument de Joseph Sec

A baroque mausoleum erected in Aix-en-Provence at the end of the 18th century, Joseph Sec's monument is a strikingly original blend of revolutionary iconography, Masonic references and allegorical statuary.

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Saint-Cirq-Lapopie · Occitanie

Eglise

Perched on the dizzy heights of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, this 15th-century Gothic church has a circular Romanesque chapel at its heart, a rare testimony to a thousand years of stratification overlooking the Lot.

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Morlaix · Bretagne

Immeuble situé 13 rue Longue

The home and studio of an exceptional Breton master glassmaker, this Morlaix building houses intact 19th-century painted decorations - an intimate and fascinating catalogue of the work of Jean-Louis Nicolas.

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Libourne · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Chapelle de Condat

The only vestige of a castle demolished by Charles VII, this medieval chapel in Libourne blends 11th-century Romanesque and flamboyant Gothic, with its strikingly elegant cross and tierceron vaults.

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Vitré · Bretagne

Maison Batteux

In the heart of Vitré, the Maison Batteux has been standing with its medieval half-timbering since the 14th-15th centuries, a rare and intact example of Breton civil architecture from the late Middle Ages.

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Ouessant · Bretagne

Phare du Créac'h

A titanic sentinel at the tip of Finistère, the Créac'h lighthouse keeps watch over one of the busiest maritime crossroads in the world. Listed as a Historic Monument, it was once the most powerful lighthouse in the world.

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