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Vernou-en-Sologne · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de la Borde

A discreet jewel of Louis XIV-era Sologne, Château de la Borde boasts a rare paneling attributed to Jean Bérain, taken from a Paris hotel and reinstalled in Loir-et-Cher. A time capsule between forests and ponds.

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Senonches · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancienne école

A jewel of republican school architecture, this former school in Senonches boasts a sumptuous polychrome façade combining brick, white stone and tiles, a living symbol of Jules Ferry's educational ambitions.

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Averdon · Centre-Val de Loire

Dolmen

A Neolithic vestige listed as a Historic Monument, the Averdon dolmen erects its imposing sandstone slabs in the heart of the Beauce region, silent testimony to an agricultural civilisation dating back over 5,000 years.

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Naveil · Centre-Val de Loire

Deux polissoirs de Mondétour

Engraved in the rock at the dawn of humanity, the two Mondétour polishing machines in Naveil reveal the daily gestures of the Neolithic craftsmen of the Loir-et-Cher region, listed as Historic Monuments since 1978.

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Saint-Gondon · Centre-Val de Loire

Ruines du donjon de la Motte

Standing on their artificial mound since the 11th century, the ruins of the Motte keep in Saint-Gondon are one of the rare examples in the Loire of a polygonal tower in flint masonry - a feudal vestige of striking intensity.

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Lignières · Centre-Val de Loire

Manoir du Tertre

Nestling in the Loir-et-Cher region, Manoir du Tertre reveals the soul of a 15th-century stronghold house: a rectangular courtyard flanked by two towers and a private chapel intact in its medieval glory.

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Nogent-le-Phaye · Centre-Val de Loire

Eolienne

An industrial jewel of the Beauce region, this 1898 Bollée wind turbine supplied the communal washhouse at Nogent-le-Phaye. With its three-piston pump intact, it bears witness to the rural hydraulic engineering of the 19th century.

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Méreau · Centre-Val de Loire

Château de Chevilly

Nestling in the heart of the Berry region, Château de Chevilly boasts five centuries of history, with its medieval towers, elegant Renaissance features and seigniorial outbuildings bearing witness to a remarkable architectural stratification.

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Blois · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancien prieuré Saint-Jean-en-Grève

The last vestige of a Benedictine priory founded in the 12th century, this medieval cellar in Blois is the embodiment of ten centuries of religious history, wars and carefully preserved oblivion.

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Berchères-sur-Vesgre · Centre-Val de Loire

Domaine du château du Herces

An architectural gem from the 18th century in the Eure-et-Loir region, Château du Herces has four strikingly different facades, crowned by a square dome and surrounded by a preserved dry moat.

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Montargis · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison Feuillette et ses dépendances

In Montargis, the Maison Feuillette is one of the rarest examples in the world of a load-bearing straw house still standing, a living laboratory for an ecological architecture born at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Maillé · Centre-Val de Loire

Manoir de la Chetalière

Austere and secretive, La Chetalière stands with its medieval towers in the heart of rural Touraine. This 15th-16th century manor house, surrounded by high walls and a parapet walk, retains its original stone cupolas intact.

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Selles-sur-Cher · Centre-Val de Loire

Château

At the gateway to the Sologne region, the Château de Selles-sur-Cher combines a medieval keep with the elegance of the Grand Siècle, with its 13th-century châtelet crowned by a Renaissance decoration of rare finesse.

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Bagneux · Centre-Val de Loire

Moulin de Venet

Moulin de Venet in Bagneux, a jewel in the crown of Berry milling heritage, will be listed as a Historic Monument in 2023. Its ancestral masonry and its location along the water reveal five centuries of milling history.

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Orléans · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison de Du Cerceau

A Renaissance gem in Orléans, this 16th-century house has a seductive façade with superimposed orders - Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and composite - and a sculpted door engraved with the Latin inscription PAX HUIC.

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Bourges · Centre-Val de Loire

Portique monumental gallo-romain

An exceptional vestige of Roman Gaul in Bourges, this monumental 1st-IIth century portico is the only example of its type preserved in France, with its nine alternating niches and its Doric decoration of rare elegance.

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Boisgasson · Centre-Val de Loire

Croix du cimetière

A Renaissance funerary gem, this 16th-century cemetery cross bears the coat of arms of the Lords of Villemesle - a stone testimony to where faith and noble power meet in Boisgasson.

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Blois · Centre-Val de Loire

Halle aux grains

Built in 1849 in Blois, this grain market in polychrome brick and stone plays on the neo-Louis XII heritage: slender turrets, a majestic nave with five naves and a timber frame with steel tie rods.

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Authon · Centre-Val de Loire

Château du Fresne

Built in 1766 in the heart of the Vendôme region, Château du Fresne's classical architecture is set around a majestic main courtyard punctuated by round towers and square pavilions, in a carefully composed green setting.

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Grossouvre · Centre-Val de Loire

Ancienne usine métallurgique

An industrial jewel in the Berry region, this 19th-century forge combines neo-classical power and technical innovation, with a mixed iron and wood framework, monumental gables and workers' accommodation with passageways, all of which bear witness to a metallurgical revolution.

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Seuilly · Centre-Val de Loire

Abbaye

On the edge of the Chinonais region, this thousand-year-old abbey, where Rabelais forged his pen, combines Gothic cellars, a Baroque chapel and a medieval fuye in a silence steeped in eight centuries of monastic history.

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Bourges · Centre-Val de Loire

Maison à pans de bois

A medieval gem in the old town of Bourges, this late 15th-century timber-framed house has a bold corbelled facade and a rural dormer window, evidence of a vanished artisanal suburb.

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Bourges · Centre-Val de Loire

Fontaine dite de Bourdaloue

In the heart of Bourges, the Bourdaloue fountain displays its winged lions and neo-Renaissance basins as a tribute to the visionary engineer who worked on the Suez Canal.

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Parnac · Centre-Val de Loire

Dolmen de l'Aire-Aux-Martres

A stone sentinel in the heart of the Berry region, the Aire-Aux-Martres dolmen in Parnac has defied the test of time since the Neolithic period. Listed as a Historic Monument since 1889, it bears witness to a collective burial rite of unsuspected sophistication.