Monuments to visit France

Lit in 1700, it is one of the oldest French lighthouses still in service. But it is not enough to mark the Channel entrance: a semaphore watches, one hundred meters lower, and above all a radar écrase its height, with an efficiency that is much better suspected. Its installation follows the shipwreck of Amoco Cadiz (1978). Stiff Bay is the main place of life, after Lampaul. She lives at the rate of boat arrivals carrying out connections with the mainland, and some fishing boats and materials transport.

Renovated, it was built between 1633 and 1638. This mill is considered one of the finest in Brittany. In 1916, he stopped pouring his 25 tons of annual flour. Today we have black wheat piling up.

First, the castle of Roche-la-Molière was a 12th century fortress. Modified in the 15th century and then in the 18th century, it is one of the rare medieval remains of the southern Loire. Surrounded by a magnificent garden, the castle opens its doors to you for a visit among its towers, curtains, machicolation... 13th century kitchen with a very rare set of 3 ovens, 17th century vaults decorated with coats of arms, 18th century salons and Kabyle lounge, chapel decorated with paintings... a great historical interest. Temporary exhibitions are regularly organized.

This splendid building, which combines the Gothic style with the Renaissance style, has successively undergone different functions: property of the Dukes of Bourbons until 1527, the princely residence, and then the hotel, lodging of stage for officers and post office in the service of the King, Maréchaussée brigade in 1737, presbytery under the Second Empire. It served as a welcome to prestigious guests. Here you can admire a splendid and imposing roof as well as a remarkable structure (renversée boat). Inside, many coated graffiti and frescos adorn thick walls. The Renaissance entrance door is surmounted by a sculpted shell where two angels have a stone coat, damaged by revolution. Legend wants them not to be destroyed in the revolution because "without panties". During the season you can visit the Petit Louvre but also enjoy various temporary exhibitions (paintings, sculptures).

The first monks settled in Apple in 834. In 960 they passed under the administration of Cluny. The first church is then abandoned in favour of a new Romanesque building, now Parish Church Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul. In the th century, the priory changed the strong house and endowed it with a Renaissance facade. After the Revolution of large bourgeois families buy the places and turn them into a residential castle. In 1990 the general council became owner, supported the restoration to open it to the public. Many temporary exhibitions offer the beauty of the places!

On the north-west of Glass, near the Val d'Ancona. A beautiful th century together with a remarkable park with water parts. The gardens were designed at the beginning of the th century in the style of French gardens.

La Roche-aux-fées is one of the most impressive megaliths in France. It is a funerary monument dating from the Neolithic period. The nearest quarry being 4 km away, the hypothesis is that these enormous stones were brought in with wooden rollers. On an alley 20 meters long and 4 meters wide, about forty blocks of red schist, the heaviest of which weighs 45 tons, form a vestibule 1.20 meters high and a room divided into 4 by projecting blocks. Legend has it that the stones fell from the fairies' apron.