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Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Gisement préhistorique de La Rochette

Nestling in the Vézère valley, the La Rochette prehistoric site reveals 80,000 years of human occupation, from the Mousterian to the Magdalenian, in one of the world's cradles of prehistory.

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Le Mont-Saint-Michel · Normandie

Maison dite Logis-Saint-Symphorien

Nestling in the medieval streets of Mont-Saint-Michel, the Logis-Saint-Symphorien is a historic residence listed twice as a Historic Monument, a silent witness to civil life on the Rock.

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Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Gisement préhistorique de Laugerie-Haute

Laugerie-Haute is a window on ancient humanity, revealing twenty millennia of Magdalenian occupation beneath its rock shelters, yielding exceptional carved flints and daggers in the heart of the Vézère valley.

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Thémines · Occitanie

Grotte des Escabasses ou de la Vipère

Nestling in the limestone plateaux of the Lot, the Escabasses cave conceals walls decorated with strikingly fine Palaeolithic engravings, silent testimony to humanity over 15,000 years old.

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Sergeac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Abri Blanchard

A prehistoric sanctuary in the Vézère valley, the Blanchard shelter contains some of the oldest Aurignacian remains in Europe, silent witnesses to a humanity in the throes of a symbolic awakening 35,000 years ago.

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Bourniquel · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Gisement solutréen du Malpas

A major Solutrean site in Périgord, the Malpas de Bourniquel reveals the secrets of a lithic industry of rare elegance, fashioned over 20,000 years ago in the heart of the Couze valley.

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Arles · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Maison du 16s

In the heart of ancient Arles, this 16th-century residence epitomises the Provençal Renaissance in all its elegant sobriety, with its dressed stone façade, sculpted frames and memory of a Mediterranean art of living.

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Le Buisson-de-Cadouin · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Grotte ornée souterraine de Cussac

In the bowels of the Périgord, the Cussac cave conceals an engraved masterpiece from the Upper Palaeolithic: mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses and mysterious human figures stand alongside 25,000-year-old burials.

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Carnac · Bretagne

Tumulus circulaires

Stone sentinels standing on the Breton moors, these Bronze Age burial mounds have watched over Carnac for over 3,500 years. Monumental and mysterious burials, they reveal a funerary art of striking sophistication.

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Le Mont-Saint-Michel · Normandie

Hôtel principal des Etablissements Poulard

In the heart of Mont-Saint-Michel, the Hôtel Poulard embodies the commercial and gastronomic soul of the Wonder, famous for its legendary omelettes served since the end of the 19th century in a listed architectural setting.

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Carnac · Bretagne

Menhir de Kerluhir

A granite sentinel that has stood on the moors of Carnac for over 5,000 years, the Kerluhir menhir embodies the mysterious power of the Breton Neolithic, and was listed as a Historic Monument in 1889.

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Savennières · Pays de la Loire

Parc et maison de la Bizolière

Nestling on the slopes of Savennières, La Bizolière is a discreet and refined Anjou residence, whose terraced grounds overlooking the Loire reveal a timeless aristocratic art of living.

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Marseille · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Caves Saint-Sauveur

A Gallo-Roman vestige buried beneath Marseille, the Caves Saint-Sauveur reveal the ancient bowels of Massalia: an underground architecture of rare authenticity, listed as one of France's very first historic monuments in 1840.

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Bouchemaine · Pays de la Loire

Eglise

At the confluence of the Maine and Loire rivers, Bouchemaine church unfurls its tufa stone beneath an elegantly sober Romanesque bell tower, a rare example of Anjou sacred art listed as a Historic Monument.

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Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Hôtel Journu

Built in 1778 on the former glacis of Château Trompette, the Hôtel Journu epitomises 18th-century Bordeaux elegance, with its classical façade, four-storey balustrade and gilded ashlar highlights.

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Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Hôtel Lisleferme

An elegant Bordeaux town house dating from the late 18th century, the Hôtel Lisleferme is a refined embodiment of the French art of living under Louis XVI, in a city at the height of its commercial splendour.

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Plouézoch · Bretagne

Tumulus de Barnenez

The oldest megalithic monument in Europe, the Barnenez burial mound has dominated the Bay of Morlaix for 6,700 years. Its eleven dry-stone burial chambers are a unique example of Breton Neolithic architecture.

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Névez · Bretagne

Dolmens

Silent witnesses to the Breton Neolithic, the dolmens of Névez stand with their granite orthostats on the Finistère coast, embodying almost 5,000 years of funerary and ritual history at the gateway to the ocean.

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Genêts · Normandie

Ilot de Tombelaine

A granite sentinel rising out of the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, Tombelaine is a wild islet classified as an ornithological reserve, the silent guardian of a tumultuous medieval history of legends and age-old battles.

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Le Mont-Saint-Michel · Normandie

Bâtiment voisin de l'Hôtel Duguesclin

Discreet but precious, this medieval residence on Mont-Saint-Michel stands next to the Hôtel Duguesclin and bears witness to Norman civil architecture within the sacred enclosure of the islet.

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Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Hôtel Gradis

A jewel of 18th-century merchant Bordeaux, the Hôtel Gradis boasts a neoclassical façade adorned with masks evocative of maritime trade - cotton, barrels - the legacy of one of France's greatest merchant dynasties.

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Erdeven · Bretagne

Alignements de Kerzérho

Second largest megalithic alignment in the world after Carnac, Kerzérho stretches nearly 2,000 standing stones across more than 2 km of Breton moorland. A granite silence inhabited by 5,000 years of history.

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Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Porte de la Monnaie

A discreet but elegant vestige of Bordeaux, the Porte de la Monnaie pierces the ancient medieval ramparts with the sober grace of the 18th century. Its large keystones and modillion cornice make it an often overlooked urban gem.

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Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Paul-Saint-François-Xavier

A 17th-century Jesuit jewel in the heart of Bordeaux, Saint-Paul-Saint-François-Xavier dazzles with its sculpted marble baldachin by Guillaume II Coustou, a masterpiece of French Baroque.

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