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Saint-Loup · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Loup

Nestling in the heart of the Loir-et-Cher region, Saint-Loup church reveals a late Romanesque style of rare coherence, crowned with medieval wall paintings that still set the apse ablaze with their ancient ochre and blue tones.

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Veigné · Centre-Val de Loire

Manoir de la Belle Jonchère

Nestling in the heart of Touraine, La Belle Jonchère is a perfect example of a 16th-century fortified manor house: two angled main buildings, towering cylindrical towers and a seigniorial dovecote make up an ensemble of rare coherence.

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Saint-Aignan · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancien champ de Foire

At Saint-Aignan, a majestic seventeenth-century ashlar portal with rusticated quoins bears witness to the ducal splendour: a basket-handle arch, semi-circular pediment and pilasters make up an entrance of rare classical elegance.

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Subligny · Centre-Val de Loire

Moulin à eau de Tirepeine

An exceptional example of milling in the Berry region, the Tirepeine mill has been standing on the Salereine River since the 15th century, its iron sandstone walls preserving intact its exceptionally complete 19th-century machinery.

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Blois · Centre-Val de Loire

maison sise 10 rue Pardessus

In the heart of the old town of Blois, this old house on rue Pardessus reveals the secrets of Loire domestic architecture, with its characteristic volumes and its recent listing as a Historic Monument.

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Amboise · Centre-Val de Loire

Fanum des Châteliers

A rare Gallo-Roman vestige in the Loire Valley, the Fanum des Châteliers in Amboise reveals an Early Roman temple with unique recumbent discharge arches - an architectural enigma buried deep in the valley.

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Avon-les-Roches · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Notre-Dame

A Romanesque and Gothic gem from Anjou nestling in Touraine, the church of Notre-Dame d'Avon-les-Roches combines a 12th-century Romanesque porch with a nave rebuilt in the 13th century in the vaulted style so characteristic of Anjou.

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Veilleins · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison à pans de bois dite La Forge (ancienne auberge)

A jewel of Sologne carpentry, this 16th-century timber-framed house combines the elegance of the Saint-André cross with the authenticity of local materials: flint, Beauce limestone and cob.

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Vouillon · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison

In Vouillon, a 15th-century medieval cellar conceals a Gothic masterpiece: rib vaults and a central octagonal pillar create an underground space of rare architectural elegance.

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Droué · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Droué

Built between 1610 and 1614 on a medieval feudal motte, the Château de Droué blends stone and brick in the sober elegance of early French Baroque, still standing guard over the margins of the Loir-et-Cher region.

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Saint-Piat · Centre-Val de Loire

Briqueterie Lambert

An exceptional industrial relic in the Eure-et-Loir region, the Lambert Brickworks houses a double gallery Hoffmann kiln, a jewel of 19th-century industrial architecture that is still intact.

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Chinon · Centre-Val de Loire

Hôtel dit Bodard de la Jacopière

In the heart of Chinon, this Renaissance town house boasts sculpted dormer windows that were partially hammered out during the Revolution - silent witnesses to a tumultuous history between aristocratic elegance and revolutionary fury.

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Semblançay · Centre-Val de Loire

Vestiges du château

Standing on a rock surrounded by a pond, the remains of Semblançay castle encapsulate a thousand years of history: from the Romanesque keep to the Renaissance dwellings built by Jacques de Beaune, François I's superintendent of finance.

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Bourges · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Bonnet

A late-Gothic jewel in the heart of Bourges, Saint-Bonnet church boasts sober, singular Renaissance architecture, built in 1513 to plans by Guillaume Pelvoysin and consecrated in 1539.

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Augy-sur-Aubois · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Ludre

The Romanesque jewel of the Berry region, Saint-Ludre church in Augy-sur-Aubois boasts a rare pre-Romanesque relief and a 12th-century vaulted arch, silent witnesses to a thousand years of faith and stone.

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Ségry · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancienne abbaye de la Prée

Founded in 1128 by Saint-Bernard, the Cistercian abbey of La Prée in Berry boasts an exceptional Romanesque dormitory and the mausoleum of Gaucher de Passac, silent witnesses to a preserved medieval spirituality.

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Restigné · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Martin

In the heart of the Chinon region, the church of Saint-Martin de Restigné boasts eight centuries of medieval architecture, from the 12th-century Angevin choir to the 15th-century Gothic roof structure, around a bell tower of elegant Romanesque proportions.

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Pouligny-Saint-Pierre · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre

In the heart of the Berry region, this 12th-century Romanesque church hides a treasure trove: strikingly fresh 15th-century murals featuring full-length apostles and an Annunciation in shades of ochre and midnight blue.

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Hommes · Centre-Val de Loire

Ruines du château

Perched in the Touraine bocage, the ruins of the Château d'Hommes exude the elegance of the Loire Renaissance: windows with sculpted pilasters, cylindrical towers and moats evoke a fascinating seigniorial past.

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Saint-Georges-sur-Cher · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison à lucarne de type compagnonnique

In the heart of Saint-Georges-sur-Cher, this ordinary house hides an extraordinary dormer window: dated 1832 and decorated with Compagnon symbols, it is a rare testimony to the secret passage of the Compagnons du Tour de France.

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Graçay · Centre-Val de Loire

Restes de l'ancienne église Saint-Martin

A 12th-century Romanesque vestige nestling in the heart of Graçay, the apse of Saint-Martin reveals its buttress columns with fluted capitals, a discreet reminder of a Benedictine priory that no longer exists.

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Ternay · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Bois-Freslon

Nestling in the heart of the Loir-et-Cher region, Bois-Freslon combines medieval keep and Renaissance refinements in a discreet, authentic setting - a heritage gem off the beaten track.

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Houville-la-Branche · Centre-Val de Loire

Château

An elegant, classical 17th-century château in the Beauce region, home to a reconstructed bedroom of Anatole France and a white marble fountain taken from the Nobel Prize winner's literary history.

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Meusnes · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Pierre

The Romanesque jewel of the Loire Valley, Saint-Pierre de Meusnes church boasts a rare Benedictine plan with three apses and sculpted three-lobed bays worthy of the finest examples of French pre-Romanesque art.