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Bouglainval · Centre-Val de Loire

Château

On the borders of the Beauce and Perche regions, Château de Bouglainval boasts a central body crowned by four turrets, fascinating gilded painted leathers and decor inspired by Watteau - a discreet jewel of the Grand Siècle.

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Méhers · Centre-Val de Loire

Manoir de Beauregard

A jewel of medieval Sologne, the Manoir de Beauregard boasts flamboyant roof dormers and an octagonal staircase in the heart of a landscape of ponds and forests that has been preserved since the 16th century.

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Tripleville · Centre-Val de Loire

Dolmen dit polissoir du Val d'Avril

An exceptional Neolithic remnant from the Loir-et-Cher region, the Val d'Avril dolmen-polissoir combines two ritual and domestic functions in a single stone, a fascinating reminder of the agricultural societies that populated the Beauce region over 5,000 years ago.

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Mézières-en-Brenne · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Sainte-Marie-Madeleine

A Gothic collegiate church founded in 1339 by Alix de Brabant, the church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Mézières-en-Brenne dazzles visitors with its sculpted portal featuring jagged canopies and exceptionally fine historiated pilasters.

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La Selle-sur-le-Bied · Centre-Val de Loire

Château

Built in 1643 in the heart of the Gâtinais region, this moated château blends stone and brick in the elegant style of the Grand Siècle, bathed by the river Cléry and watched over by a farm with medieval cellars.

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Lugny-Champagne · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Billeron

At the gateway to the Berry region, Château de Billeron displays its classic 18th-century elegance in front of a half-moon courtyard flanked by round towers and extended by a neo-Gothic chapel of rare delicacy.

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Tavers · Centre-Val de Loire

Dolmen dit La Pierre Tournante

At the gateway to the Beauce region of the Loire, La Pierre Tournante de Tavers stands with its thousand-year-old sandstone slabs - one of the few listed dolmens in the Loiret region, an enigmatic vestige of a dense and fascinating Neolithic territory.

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Azay-sur-Indre · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancienne métairie monastique de Bergeresse

Bergeresse, a former tenant farm belonging to the Carthusian monks of Le Liget, boasts a medieval doorway with a pointed arch, a polygonal tower with a stone spiral and remains of wall paintings of rare monastic sobriety.

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Crissay-sur-Manse · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison du 15e siècle, sise sur la place

In the heart of the most beautiful village in Touraine, this 15th-century Gothic residence with its elegant triangular dormer windows bears witness to the discreet splendour of the gentlemen of the court of Charles VII.

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Marchenoir · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Notre-Dame

In the heart of the Loir-et-Cher region, the church of Notre-Dame de Marchenoir boasts a strikingly sober Romanesque portal and a flamboyant apse with chiselled infills, bearing witness to eight centuries of sacred art.

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Loigny-la-Bataille · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Goury

Austere and elegant, Château de Goury in Loigny-la-Bataille features square turrets and a dry moat, a refined example of seigniorial architecture from the Grand Siècle in Beauce.

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Genillé · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancienne abbaye de la Bourdillière

Nestling in Touraine, the former Cistercian abbey of La Bourdillière is a blend of 15th-century seigneurial dwelling and 17th-century Baroque convent, with its cylindrical tower and unusually elegant stone screw.

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Bourges · Centre-Val de Loire

Fontaine de Fer, ou fontaine Saint-Firmin

In the heart of Bourges, the Fontaine de Fer combines ferruginous waters renowned since the Middle Ages with classical civil architecture. A listed monument that still exudes the spirit of the popular cures of the Grand Siècle.

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Villedieu-sur-Indre · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise paroissiale Saint-Sébastien

The Romanesque jewel of Berry, Saint-Sébastien church in Villedieu-sur-Indre boasts an 11th-century trefoil chevet of rare sophistication, the legacy of a thousand-year-old priory with apsidioles worthy of the great basilicas of Antiquity.

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Blois · Centre-Val de Loire

Chocolaterie Poulain

An industrial symbol of Blois, the Poulain chocolate factory has a unique heritage that combines 19th-century brick architecture with bold reinforced concrete structures, bearing witness to a chocolate-making adventure that left its mark on an entire region.

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Chartres · Centre-Val de Loire

Théâtre municipal

A jewel of 19th-century theatrical architecture, the Théâtre municipal de Chartres boasts an intact Italian-style décor, gilded caryatids and a painted ceiling, all set in a timeless classical setting.

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Huisseau-en-Beauce · Centre-Val de Loire

Menhir

A stone sentinel that has stood in the heart of the Beauce since the Neolithic period, the menhir at Huisseau-en-Beauce is one of the few megalithic remains in the cereal-growing plain, and was listed as a Historic Monument in 1889.

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Levroux · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Sylvain

Saint-Sylvain de Levroux, a Gothic jewel in the Indre region that was listed in 1840, boasts a portal sculpted with angels and saints and a unique leper door, the guardian of a thousand-year-old Martinian legend.

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Saint-Gaultier · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise du prieuré Saint-Gaultier

In the heart of the Berry region, the priory church of Saint-Gaultier reveals a twelfth-century Romanesque style of rare singularity: its perpendicular cradle aisles and its dome on a barlong plan make it a fascinating architectural laboratory.

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Marcé-sur-Esves · Centre-Val de Loire

Vestiges du fanum gallo-romain

In the heart of Touraine, this mysterious cone of Gallo-Roman masonry is one of the rare remains of a fanum still standing in the region, silent testimony to a local religious tradition dating back two millennia.

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Issoudun · Centre-Val de Loire

Porte dite de l'Horloge

A major vestige of Issoudun's medieval fortifications, the Porte de l'Horloge's two Renaissance towers have stood the test of time. This 16th-century jewel was listed as a Historic Monument in 1916.

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Nibelle · Centre-Val de Loire

Vestiges du château du Hallier

A Renaissance fortress of brick and stone nestling in the Beauce region, Château du Hallier extends ten circular towers around a quadrilateral moat - a rare ensemble that exudes the quiet power of the Loire Renaissance.

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Ceaulmont · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Saturnin

Nestling deep in the Berry region, Saint-Saturnin de Ceaulmont church boasts a Romanesque porch with 13th-century ogival archways and a 17th-century Baroque interior, a rare combination of two architectural souls in one building.

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Langeais · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison dite de Rabelais

In Langeais, a sober Renaissance residence keeps the memory of Rabelais alive: fluted pilasters, chiselled capitals and mullioned windows evoke the flamboyant humanism of the 16th century.