Monuments in Poitou-Charentes

The current castle was founded in the X and XI centuries by the family of Beaumont and occupies a considerable ...

BRESSUIRE (79)

The parish church and priory of the city of Bressuire was built in the XI century. In the XIII century, the ...

BRESSUIRE (79)

The museum was created in 1971. Housed in the old grain depots, built in 1827 on the location of the monsters ...

BRESSUIRE (79)

The Chapel Saint-Cyprien, from the X century, is one of the oldest historical evidence of Bressuire, she has ...

BRESSUIRE (79)

After the destruction of the first castle to the X century, a new one is built in the XIII century. According ...

COGNAC (16)

Church Saint-Léger is the largest churches in Cognac. She was formerly the Benedictine Priory and now serves ...

COGNAC (16)

Church Saint-Martin is a church of the XII century which has preserved the remains of its ancient cemetery of ...

COGNAC (16)

The Benedictine architecture brought us this magnificient abbey, located in Charroux, in the Poitou-Charente ...

CHARROUX (86)

Church of Saint-André was built in the early of XVII century, classical style, it has a beautiful carved ...

DOLUS-D'OLERON (17)

The Gallo-Roman site of Sanxay was an important place for treatment and pilgrimage. It was discovered in 1881 ...

SANXAY (86)

The towers of la Lanterne, la Chaîne and Saint-Nicolas, are facing the ocean, they are the symbols of La ...

LA ROCHELLE (17)

Priory of Saint-Médard of La Perroche before the Revolution was a monastic congregation, called la ...

DOLUS-D'OLERON (17)

Castle Balzac is located on the town of Balzac, Charente, near Angouleme. Treasurer Guillaume Guez is the ...

BALZAC (16)

The church of Ars-en-Ré, built mainly in the fifteenth century, is dedicated to Saint Etienne. This church ...

ARS-EN-RE (17)

The dungeon is located Fouras Fouras in the department of Charente-Maritime. This is a relic that testifies to ...

FOURAS (17)

The Château d’Oiron is located between Poitiers and Angers. The construction of the building ...

OIRON (79)

The original castle was built in the eleventh century by Lord Drogon. The present castle dates mainly from the ...

SAINT-LOUP-LAMAIRE (79)

Pierre d'Amboise, Bishop of Poitiers, was the brother of Cardinal d'Amboise, minister of Louis XII, ...

DISSAY (86)

Castle-Couvert is a castle located on the French town of Jaunay-Clan, in the department of Vienne, whose ...

JAUNAY-CLAN (86)

The idea that a fort should be built at that place in order to protect the naval shipyard of Rochefort dated ...

ILE-D'AIX (17)

The Cathedral Saint-Pierre, located in the historic center of Angouleme, is the most remarkable monument of ...

ANGOULEME (16)

Regarded as one of the oldest Christian buildings in France, the Baptistery of St. John was built between the ...

POITIERS (86)

Consecrated in 1086 by Pope Urban II, this Romanesque church has a large carved facade added in the twelfth ...

POITIERS (86)

The Dungeon of Eleanor of Aquitaine is paired with another dungeon. These two towers were part of a vast ...

NIORT (79)