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Montreuil-en-Touraine · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancien château

An austere 15th-century fortified house in the heart of Touraine, where late Gothic and early Classical styles blend into a well-preserved setting, with period tiles, original woodwork and intact defensive moats.

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Blancafort · Centre-Val de Loire

Château

Built of red brick in the heart of the Berry region, Château de Blancafort combines medieval austerity with the elegance of the Grand Siècle: two semi-circular towers, a square keep and a 17th-century gallery of rare sobriety.

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Saint-Jean-Saint-Germain · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Saint-Germain

A former manor house of the archbishops of Tours, this 15th-16th century castle features two angled wings, cylindrical towers and a machicolated sentry walk in a timeless Touraine setting.

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Baccon · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de la Touanne

Nestling in the Loiret region of France, Château de la Touanne boasts an elegant H-shaped layout, set between a main courtyard with dry moats and romantic parklands, blending classical sobriety from the 17th century with neo-classical refinement from the Restoration period.

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Blois · Centre-Val de Loire

Hôtel d'Alluye

A jewel of the Blès Renaissance, the Hôtel d'Alluye boasts stone and brick facades with Italian accents, an intimate echo of the royal château that dominates the town. A rare testimony to the aristocracy of the time of Louis XII.

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Amilly · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Martin

A discreet jewel in the Loiret region, the church of Saint-Martin in Amilly boasts a remarkably coherent 16th-century tripartite nave, with Gothic ribs and transoms plunging directly into their supports, without capitals.

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Cadillac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Martin

Collegiate church founded by Gaston III de Foix-Candale, funerary sanctuary of the powerful ducs d'Épernon with its crypt and its sumptuous polychrome marble enclosure in the heart of the Bordelais.

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Gizeux · Centre-Val de Loire

Moulin Scée

The last of the eight water mills in Gizeux, the Moulin Scée has kept its 19th-century milling equipment intact, from the millstones to the cylinders, making it a veritable living museum of the milling industry in Touraine.

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Cadaujac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Maison dite Maison Droit

An elegant eighteenth-century Bordeaux residence, Maison Droit's noble façade faces the Garonne, in keeping with the tradition of the great riverside estates of the Médoc and Entre-Deux-Mers.

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Ferrière-Larçon · Centre-Val de Loire

Camp préhistorique dit La Butte de Murat

Perched on a natural promontory in Touraine, the Butte de Murat is a fortified prehistoric camp whose earthen ramparts reveal several millennia of human occupation in the Loire Valley.

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Vatan · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Laurian

In Vatan, the church of Saint-Laurian boasts a flamboyant 15th-century Gothic chancel and a carved doorway dating from 1498 with remarkable interlacing, bearing witness to a medieval past that has been preserved against wind and collapse.

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Notre-Dame-d'Oé · Centre-Val de Loire

Domaine de Chassetière

On the outskirts of Tours, this early 18th-century manor house boasts sober, refined elegance, with its paved main courtyard and formal garden opening onto intimate wooded grounds.

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Heugnes · Centre-Val de Loire

Ligne à voie ferrée métrique le Blanc-Argent (ou B.A.) sur le tronçon Luçay-le-Malé-Argy

The Blanc-Argent line, a railway relic listed as a Historic Monument, crosses the Indre on metre gauge, a rare example of rural railways from the early 20th century.

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Tours · Centre-Val de Loire

Monument circulaire gallo-romain

Buried beneath Tours, this circular Gallo-Roman sanctuary from the 2nd century reveals the sacred foundations of ancient Caesarodunum - an exceptional vestige accessible through a trapdoor, somewhere between archaeology and urban mystery.

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Veigné · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancienne chapelle Saint-Laurent

Nestling in the Touraine countryside, this 12th-century Romanesque chapel houses a rare frescoed Christ in Majesty and stands on a site of worship dating back to Saint Martin himself.

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Pontlevoy · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Pierre

Nestling in the heart of Pontlevoy Abbey, this Romanesque and Gothic church boasts a medieval bell tower rising above the transept and an elegant 15th-century polygonal stair tower.

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Selles-sur-Cher · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison des 13e et 16e siècles

A rare example of medieval architecture in Selles-sur-Cher, this 13th and 16th century house boasts a Gothic façade adorned with ogival mullioned windows and sculpted capitals, a striking vestige of the Château de Clamecy.

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Mennetou-sur-Cher · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison en pans de bois au pied de la Porte d'En-Haut

A jewel of medieval timber-framed architecture in the heart of Mennetou-sur-Cher, this 15th-16th century house with its elaborate half-timbering stands against the ancient Porte d'En-Haut, an exceptional example of late medieval civil architecture in the Loire Valley.

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Candes-Saint-Martin · Centre-Val de Loire

Moulin-cavier du Puits-Saint-Michel

A rare troglodyte mill in the Loire Valley, the Moulin du Puits-Saint-Michel reveals the ingenuity of 16th-century Touraine millers, who dug into the tufa stone to harness the wind.

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Bléré · Centre-Val de Loire

Chapelle de l'ancien cimetière, dite chapelle de Seigne

A discreet stone sentinel in the heart of Bléré, the Seigne chapel has watched over the town's former cemetery since the Middle Ages. Its late Romanesque architecture in Touraine tufa stone makes it a little-known jewel in the Loire Valley.

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Montigny-le-Gannelon · Centre-Val de Loire

Porte Roland

A medieval vestige of rare sobriety, the Porte Roland in Montigny-le-Gannelon boasts a cornice with Romanesque modillions and buttresses characteristic of the turn of the 12th-13th centuries, silent testimony to a fortified enclosure that has now disappeared.

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Saint-Denis-sur-Loire · Centre-Val de Loire

Château

On the banks of the Loire, this 18th-century château erects its classical outbuildings on feudal foundations, the silent guardian of a thousand years of history between medieval moats and triangular pediments.

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Méobecq · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancienne abbaye Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul

Born of a Merovingian hermitage in 632, the 11th-century Romanesque walls of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Méobecq abbey in the heart of the Berry region bear striking witness to a spirituality dating back thousands of years, between the Wars of Religion and cloistered silence.

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Griselles · Centre-Val de Loire

Moulin Tosset

The Tosset mill in Griselles is a listed milling remnant, with a working metal bucket wheel that bears rare witness to 15th-century milling in Loirétaine.