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Montlivault · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Montlivault

At the gateway to the Sologne region, this Val-de-Loirien château boasts three centuries of elegance: Renaissance main building, corbelled turrets and Louis XV panelling of rare finesse. Richelieu is said to have stayed here in 1628.

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Savonnières · Centre-Val de Loire

Manoir du Plessis

Nestling in the greenery of Savonnières, Manoir du Plessis unfurls its Renaissance main buildings and classical alterations around an intimate 16th-century chapel, a discreet testimony to a deep and authentic Touraine.

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Lorris;Les Bordes;Montereau;Ouzouer-sur-Loire · Centre-Val de Loire

Les quatre maisons forestières et le monument commémoratif situés au Carrefour de la Résistance

In the heart of the Orléans forest, the Carrefour de la Résistance preserves the charred ruins of the forest houses and the monument to the maquisards massacred on 14 August 1944 - a poignant place of remembrance, listed as a Historic Monument in 2023.

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Boussay · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Boussay

On the edge of Touraine, Château de Boussay reveals seven centuries of metamorphoses, from the medieval keep with its trefoil machicolations to the grand classical structure of the 18th century.

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Farges-en-Septaine · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Bois-Bouzon

An elegant Louis XIII pavilion nestling in the heart of the Berry region, Château de Bois-Bouzon boasts sober, refined architecture designed by Jean Lejuge, the Condé family's official master builder, with its arched pediments and preserved interior woodwork.

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Bourges · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancien grand magasin "Aux Nouvelles Galeries"

An Art Deco jewel in the heart of Bourges, this former department stores', rebuilt in 1929, captivates visitors with its majestic central rotunda and two symmetrical facades of unparalleled commercial elegance.

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Saint-Marcel · Centre-Val de Loire

Prieuré de Saint-Marin

Nestling in the Berry region, this 12th-century Benedictine priory has preserved its cruciform church and priory dwelling, silent witnesses to a rural spirituality shaped by the mother abbey of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe.

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Montlouis-sur-Loire · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison dite La Ramée

In the heart of Touraine, La Ramée reveals the sober elegance of the French Renaissance: dormer windows with gables, refined pilasters and a curved pediment with a mysterious coat of arms, witness to a sumptuous 16th century.

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Clion · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de l'Isle-Savary

A medieval fortress in the Indre department, the château de l'Isle-Savary rises its keep above its preserved moat. A 15th-century defensive quadrilateral of rare integrity, elegantly redesigned in the Grand Siècle.

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Sennevières · Centre-Val de Loire

Chapelle Saint-Jean-du-Liget

Lost in the forest of Loches, the chapel of Saint-Jean-du-Liget conceals an unsuspected treasure: a cycle of 13th-century Romanesque frescoes of rare completeness, a mystical jewel of deep Touraine.

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Sully-sur-Loire · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Sully-sur-Loire

A listed medieval fortress on the Loire, the Château de Sully-sur-Loire impresses visitors with its cylindrical towers, white-water moat and 14th-century roof structure, a masterpiece of Gothic carpentry.

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Bourges · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancien hôtel des Trésoriers de la Sainte-Chapelle

A flamboyant Gothic vestige from Berry, the portal of the Hôtel des Trésoriers de la Sainte-Chapelle in Bourges embodies the grandeur of 15th-century royal institutions, built in 1418 by Arnoul Belin for the Sainte-Chapelle du Palais.

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Le Mont-Saint-Michel · Normandie

Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel

Rising from the waves of Normandy's bay, Mont-Saint-Michel's thousand-year-old abbey reaches for the heavens. A Gothic and Romanesque masterpiece crowned by a golden spire, this sacred rock is one of the most visited sites in the world.

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Graçay · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Coulon

A Renaissance jewel in the Berry region, Château de Coulon's north pavilion conceals an exceptional painted cabinet with grotesques inspired by Fontainebleau - one of the rarest interior decorations in the Cher region.

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Dammarie-en-Puisaye · Centre-Val de Loire

Château

On the borders of the Loiret and Puisaye regions, this château with its medieval origins is a remarkable blend of 12th-century Romanesque keep and elegant Victorian neo-Gothic residence, nestling in the heart of unspoilt woodland.

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Tours · Centre-Val de Loire

Hôtel du 18e siècle

In the heart of Tours, this 18th-century private mansion features elegant wrought-iron balconies and a wrought-iron transom grille, refined reminders of the Touraine art of living during the Enlightenment.

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Salignac · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Eglise Saint-Pierre

Nestled in the heart of its village churchyard, the église Saint-Pierre de Salignac reveals a Romanesque chevet from the 12th century of remarkable integrity, with its radiating absidioles and its bricked-up windows that still whisper of the age of the builders.

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Verdes · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Lierville

Renaissance Château de Lierville, in the heart of the Beauce blaisoise region: two majestic wings punctuated by towers, a medieval past reinterpreted and Gothic alterations that make it a fascinating witness to the metamorphoses of French taste.

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Assay · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Baschet (ou Bascher, ou Basché)

On the borders of Touraine, the château de Basché combines neo-classical towers with an exceptional Renaissance dovecote boasting 1,400 pigeon-holes — a discreet jewel of the medieval Loire.

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Châtillon-sur-Indre · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancien prieuré de Saint-Martin-de-Vertou, dit Maison du Bailli

The Maison du Bailli in Châtillon-sur-Indre, a former 14th-15th century prioral outbuilding, boasts a five-sided staircase turret and rare medieval plant mural paintings.

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Beaulieu-sur-Loire · Centre-Val de Loire

Eglise Saint-Etienne

Built on the borders of the Berry and Gâtinais regions, the church of Saint-Étienne in Beaulieu-sur-Loire combines a Romanesque nave that survived the Wars of Religion with a Renaissance apse, bearing witness to ten centuries of faith and resilience.

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La Celle-Condé · Centre-Val de Loire

Château du Plessis

Tucked away in the Berry region, this 15th-century manor house has a captivating array of circular towers, turrets with pepper-boxes and an entrance door decorated with a curvilinear triangular tympanum - a late-medieval jewel listed as a Historic Monument.

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Bourges · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison à pans de bois, dite maison de la Tournelle

A flamboyant Gothic gem in the Berry region, this 15th-century timber-framed house was home to the painter Jean Boucher. Its unique circular corbelled turret epitomises the elegance of medieval civil architecture in the Berry region.

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Crissay-sur-Manse · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Crissay

Still in its unfinished medieval state, Château de Crissay reveals an intact 15th-century great hall, with its original door frames and monumental fireplace - a rare example of Touraine seigneurial architecture.