Monuments in Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The castle of Bourdeilles was firstly a medieval castle, in the end of the 13th, then a Renaissance palace of ...

BOURDEILLES (24)

The castle of Nerac is a Renaissance style building located in Nerac in the Lot-et-Garonne. It's listed ...

NERAC (47)

The Abbaye de la Sauve Majeure was built in 1079 by St. Gerard and the Duke of Aquitaine, on the very site ...

LA SAUVE (33)

The Castle of Cadillac is located at 35 km from the city of Bordeaux, it overlooks the Garonne river and the ...

CADILLAC (33)

the Castle of Puyguilhem built in the early sixteenth, was one of the finest residences in the Loire Valley at ...

VILLARS (24)

The Cave of Pair-non-Pair is near the estuary of Gironde, it is one of the oldest decorated caves in the ...

PRIGNAC-ET-MARCAMPS (33)

An important archaeological site, managed by the National Monuments is located on the town. A large ...

MONTCARET (24)

The Cathedral Saint André is one of the most beautiful religious buildings owned by the city. It was ...

BORDEAUX (33)

Castle of Bonneval was built in 930 on a hill overlooking the surrounding area. Flanked by the four corners of ...

COUSSAC-BONNEVAL (87)

Church dedicated to Saint Saturnin dates from the XV century. It houses an liter funeral of the XVI century ...

COUSSAC-BONNEVAL (87)

Medieval church of the XII century, it was built in 1625. This village and its surroundings have a remarkable ...

BIDARRAY (64)

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)

Abbey of Chancelade, located in the Dordogne, has a very particular roman style. Its construction was made ...

CHANCELADE (24)

Shelter of Raymonden is well known in the region because it is the place where was found the man skeleton of ...

CHANCELADE (24)

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)

Castle Ventadour is located in Moustier-Ventadour in the department of Corrèze in the Limousin region. ...

MOUSTIER-VENTADOUR (19)

The castle is Johannie a French chateau located in the town of Curemonte in Corrèze, Limousin. This ...

CUREMONTE (19)

The Abbey Sainte Valerie is a masterpiece of Romanesque art in the Creuse. This is one of the largest ...

CHAMBON-SUR-VOUEIZE (23)

The Castle of Crozant is located Crozant in the department of Creuse and Limousin region. The castle was ...

CROZANT (23)

Trigonant Castle is a castle located on the French town of Anton-and-trine in the Dordogne in the Aquitaine ...

ANTONNE-ET-TRIGONANT (24)

The Church of St. Martin is located on the town of Besse in the French department of Dordogne. It is ...

BESSE (24)

After several revolts of Bordeaux, the last one was in 1675, Louis XIV decided to expand the fortress ...

BORDEAUX (33)

Mongenan Castle, located in the town of Portets in the French department of Gironde, is a castle of the ...

PORTETS (33)

The church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste Aules is on the Common Doazit in the French department of Landes. The church ...

DOAZIT (40)

Gaujacq Castle is a stately seventeenth century, built by a lieutenant general of the armies of Louis XIV. ...

GAUJACQ (40)

The Cathedral of St. Caprais Agen, built in the twelfth century, is a French Catholic cathedral in the ...

AGEN (47)

Originally erected in the twelfth century, the castle of Duras is transformed in the fourteenth century into ...

DURAS (47)

The building, begun in 1120 by the chorus at the instigation of the Bishop Guy Lons. Become royal cemetery at ...

LESCAR (64)

There is behind the creation of the Abbey of Sauvelade, a deed of donation from the Viscount of Bearn, Gaston ...

SAUVELADE (64)

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 castle's history began around the year 1000 by the fortification by the Viscounts of Limoges a rocky ...

ROCHECHOUART (87)

Chalucet Castle is located in Saint-Jean-Ligoure about 10 miles south of Limoges (Haute-Vienne). The remains ...

SAINT-JEAN-LIGOURE (87)

Abbey Aubazine is located in Corèze, in the commune of Aubazine. Since October 13, 1988 for the convent ...

AUBAZINES (19)

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)

The Cathédral Notre-Dame de Tulle, built in a roman and gothic style, was built in the twelfth century ...

TULLE (19)

Perigueux keeps track of Vésone, Gallo-Roman city founded by the Prétrocores around 16 year BC ...

PERIGUEUX (24)

Realized in 1929 Roger Gonthier on the site of a former bénedictine monastery, it is considered as one of the ...

LIMOGES (87)

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 Donjon Lacataye is the symbol of the town of Mont-de-Marsan in the Landes. The Donjon Lacataye welcomes ...

MONT-DE-MARSAN (40)

The Church of the Madeleine, built in the nineteenth century by the architect Arthaud, is the largest church ...

MONT-DE-MARSAN (40)

Built in the seventeenth century by the architect Vauban, this imposing and majestic military fortress of ...

BLAYE (33)

The Phare de Cordouan is the oldest lighthouse in Europe dating from the fifteenth century. Come to discover ...

LE VERDON-SUR-MER (33)

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

NIORT (79)

The castle overlooks the silhouette of the entire village of Hautefort. Built on the site of an ancient Roman ...

HAUTEFORT (24)

Historic monument of the sixteenth century Monbazillac Castle, owned the winery since 1960 Monbazillac, this ...

MONBAZILLAC (24)

Inhabited since the Bronze Age, the castle naturally protected due to its strategic position at the top of the ...

BEYNAC-ET-CAZENAC (24)

This is in a beautiful set of monastic architecture of the twelfth century the house wine you receive. It will ...

BERGERAC (24)

Cadouin Abbey was built in 1115 by Gérard de Salles. The tour presents different architectures: ...

LE BUISSON-DE-CADOUIN (24)

Castelnaud Castle was founded in the twelfth century. During the Hundred Years War, he played a major role in ...

CASTELNAUD-LA-CHAPELLE (24)

The Pataud, classified as a historic monument since 1958, became the property of the National Museum of ...

LES EYZIES-DE-TAYAC-SIREUIL (24)

Located in the Médoc, the present castle was built in 1810 and 1816 by the architect Louis Combe. The ...

MARGAUX (33)

Former property of the Kings of Navarre, King Henry IV of France and Queen Margot, Cazeneuve Castle is a ...

PRECHAC (33)

Romanesque Cathedral Bazas was modeled on the Gothic cathedrals of northern France. The interior of the ...

BAZAS (33)

Classified as historical monuments, the castle Montaner dominates the Pyrenees and the plain of the Adour. ...

MONTANER (64)

Classified as a historic monument since 1981, the Imperial Chapel Biarritz was designed at the request of the ...

BIARRITZ (64)

Built between 1864 and 1879, the castle of Abbadia is located in the town of Hendaye. Overlooking the ocean, ...

HENDAYE (64)

Sare caves were inhabited in prehistoric times. The cave bears lived in this place during the hibernation ...

SARE (64)

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CERCLES (24)

The castle is built on a terrace held up by a medieval retaining wall on a sheer drop to the Dordogne, so as ...

ASTAILLAC (19)

The Abbey Church of Saint-Pierre was founded in the 9th century by Rodolphe of the family of the Counts of ...

BEAULIEU-SUR-DORDOGNE (19)