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Ludon-Médoc · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château La Lagune

Château La Lagune is an elegant 18th-century Carthusian monastery nestling in the heart of the Médoc wine region. Its symmetrical wings are set around courtyards of honour enclosed by wrought iron gates, a discreet monument to the aristocracy of wine.

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Tréhet · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Notre-Dame

The Romanesque pearl of the Vendôme region, the church of Notre-Dame de Tréhet has preserved exceptionally fresh wall paintings from the turn of the 13th century, evidence of intact medieval art.

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Bourges · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancienne église Saint-Jean-le-Vieil

A medieval vestige in the heart of Bourges, the former church of Saint-Jean-le-Vieil has preserved its 12th-century Romanesque chevet - apse and apsidioles intact - a rare testimony to centuries of priory life.

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Charenton-du-Cher · Centre-Val de Loire

La Grosse Forge

An exceptional vestige of the first industrial revolution in the Berry region, the Grosse Forge de Charenton is home to a forge that is unique in the Centre region and to a workforce of rare authenticity, a living witness to a three-century-old metallurgical saga.

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Argenvilliers · Centre-Val de Loire

Château d'Oursières

A discreet classic jewel of the Perche region, Château d'Oursières unfurls its sober elegance between a courtyard of honour and a formal garden, crowned by a curved pediment and a bull's eye with a graceful Louis-Quatorian style.

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La Guerche · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise paroissiale Saint-Marcellin

The Romanesque jewel of the Creuse Valley, Saint-Marcellin church in La Guerche boasts a cupola on trunks transformed into an ogival vault and a soberly elegant Renaissance seigneurial chapel.

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Senonches · Centre-Val de Loire

Vieux Château

Standing on the heights of the Senonches forest, the Vieux Château combines a 12th-century keep with later buildings that bear witness to a thousand years of feudal power in the Eure-et-Loir.

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Ligré · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Sassay

Nestling in the Val de Vienne, Château de Sassay's Renaissance architecture unfurls around a seigniorial courtyard where corbelled turrets and cylindrical fuye bear witness to an intact aristocratic way of life.

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Argy · Centre-Val de Loire

Château d'Argy

A flamboyant Gothic jewel in the Indre region, the Château d'Argy features galleries sculpted in the Louis XII period, adjoining arcades and facings engraved with fleurs de lys, all set in a stone setting of rare elegance.

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Courtenay · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul

At the gateway to the Gâtinais region, Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Courtenay combines a 12th-century Romanesque bell tower, the remains of a Cluniac abbey, with a strikingly elegant Renaissance nave.

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Athée-sur-Cher · Centre-Val de Loire

Site du barrage éclusé mobile à aiguilles de Nitray

Along the Cher, the Nitray lock dam perpetuates 19th-century hydraulic engineering: its wooden needles regulating the flow of a canalised river, a rare and intact testimony to river engineering in the industrial era.

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Thimert-Gâtelles · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Pierre de Thimert

Nestling in the heart of the Beauce region of Chartres, Saint-Pierre de Thimert church reveals a thousand years of sacred architecture, from the sober Romanesque arcades of the 12th century to the Renaissance stained glass windows that still bathe the transept in light.

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Bonneveau · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste

In the heart of the Vendôme region, the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Bonneveau is home to a rare treasure: a cycle of strikingly fresh 16th-century murals, crowning a Romanesque apse decorated with a celestial Trinity against a starry background.

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Orléans · Centre-Val de Loire

Centre hospitalier régional d'Orléans, dit Hôpital général d'Orléans

In the heart of Orléans, the General Hospital displays its classical architecture around the Saint-Charles chapel designed by Jacques V Gabriel, a jewel of the Grand Siècle nestling between four inner courtyards.

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Pezou · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre

In Pezou, Saint-Pierre church reveals a tumultuous past: a fortified bell tower with a drawbridge and a medieval framework adorned with carved crocodiles, testimony to a faith mingled with defence.

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Le Châtelet · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison de maître de la Charnaye

A 16th-century manor house nestling in the depths of the Berry region, the maison de maître de la Charnaye displays the sober elegance of the provincial Renaissance, and was listed as a Historic Monument in 2021.

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Vouzon · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancien presbytère

Nestling in Vouzon in the Sologne region, this former Henri IV presbytery conceals an exceptional Renaissance interior beneath its brick façade: a 17th-century painted ceiling with landscapes and cartouches adorned with leather, listed as a Monument Historique.

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Tours · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancien hôtel de l'Archidiaconné du Chapitre de Saint-Gatien

A neo-classical Touraine gem dating from 1785, this former chapter house boasts a facade of rare elegance, with fluted pilasters, a triangular pediment and a frieze of tracery set against a background of white Touraine stone.

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Saint-Pierre-les-Bois · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Pierre

In the heart of the Berry region, Saint-Pierre church boasts a Romanesque portal with a double scroll of rare elegance, and a cul-de-four apse that bears witness to the genius of 12th-century construction.

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Rhodon · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Cloud

Nestling in the bocage of the Vendôme region, the church of Saint-Cloud de Rhodon boasts sculpted Romanesque capitals, medieval wall paintings and a mysterious hexagonal tower, possibly a lantern for the dead.

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Chambon-sur-Cisse · Centre-Val de Loire

Réseau de tranchées d'entraînement de la guerre 14-18 (site des Sablonnières)

Set in the heart of the Blois forest, this network of life-size trenches offers a fascinating insight into the training of soldiers in 14-18, the only site of its kind to be listed as a Historic Monument in France.

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Montipouret · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Martin

In Montipouret, the church of Saint-Martin reveals seven centuries of sacred architecture: a Romanesque choir with leafy capitals from the 12th century, a sculpted Gothic bell tower and a cross-vaulted chapel dating from 1488.

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Bridoré · Centre-Val de Loire

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A 15th-century medieval fortress nestling in Touraine, Château de Bridoré's imposing keep flanked by turrets stands in the Indre-et-Loire countryside, the silent guardian of forgotten frescoes.

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Choue · Centre-Val de Loire

Ruines de la chapelle de Guériteau

In the heart of the Vendôme region, the ruins of the Guériteau chapel reveal the sober elegance of 13th-century Benedictine Gothic: a portal with a double archivolt and six-lobed oculi, frozen in silence since 1240.