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Château de Boucard
18260 LE NOYER
La rencontre de l'austérité Médiévale et de la splendeur Renaissance.
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Eglise Saint Orien, Danse Macabre
28120 MESLAY-LE-GRENET
The modest church of Saint Orien de Meslay le Grenet is home to some rare and curious paintings: a Danse Macabre. The Danse Macabre was born amid the misery of the end of the Hundred Years War and shows a procession in which Death leads the way, followed by representatives of all the social classes....
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Prieuré Saint-Léonard
37220 L ILE-BOUCHARD
This former priory was inhabited by a community of monks. It became a parish in the mid-XIIIth century. Small apses surround the central semi-circular apse. The tiled roof was recently renovated
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Maison de la Croix Blanche
36300 INGRANDES
To be discovered: the park with its old cedar trees, the listed historic monument stone staircase, the fresques painted by Willette and the gallery with it listed marquees. .
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Musée de la Poterne
37290 PREUILLY-SUR-CLAISE
Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions. The abbatial church, a listed historical monument, was built in the 11th and 12th centuries and restored in the 15th. The museum is next door to the Château du Lion, former home of the first Barons of Touraine. This was the south entrance to the large 15th-century...
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Eglise Saint-Hugues
18520 AVORD
L'église d'Avord dépendait en 1133 du chapitre du château de Bourges. De cette époque, il subsiste une belle façade à deux niveaux et trois travées. L'avant-corps saillant au centre se prolonge par deux contreforts formant une grande arcade sur le pignon au-dessus du portail. Celui-ci est accosté de...
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Château de Chamerolles
45170 CHILLEURS-AUX-BOIS
Renaissance garden and Château. The real originality lies in the perfume promenade evoking the use of perfume from the 16th century to the present day.
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Cathédrale de Chartres
28000 CHARTRES
A key centre of Christianity in medieval Europe, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Chartres is an exceptional example of the religious art of the 12th and 13th centuries. Its nine sculpted doorways and 176 stained-glass windows, all in outstanding condition, provide a set of images like no other in the world,...
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Château Guillaume
36370 LIGNAC
The Romanesque dungeon of the 11th century was extended in the 13th century. The château, demolished under the government of Richelieu, was renovated in the 19th century by the Countess of Beauchamp who is an ancestor of the current owners. There is a harmonious and well conserved part of the buildings...
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Abbaye de Seuilly
37500 SEUILLY
Founded around 1100 by the Benedictine order, partially destroyed and rebuilt in the XVth and XVIIth centuries, the Abbaye de Seuilly was made famous by author François Rabelais, who studied here. It is now home to the Permanent Centre for Environmental Initiatives in the Loire Valley (CPIE) and the...