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CHATEAUBRIANT CASTLE
Castles to visit
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This fortress of the Marches de Bretagne is located on a rocky promontory ...Read more
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THE QUARRY OF THE EXECUTED
Monuments to visit
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A historic quarry 3 km from Châteaubriant, where 27 hostages were shot by ...Read more
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SAINT-JEAN-DE-BÉRÉ CHURCH
Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels
The oldest church in Loire-Atlantique, with apses, a transept, an ancient ...Read more
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RESISTANCE MUSEUM
Specialized museum
Museum whose permanent exhibition presents execution posts, the last ...Read more
2024
A LAND OF IRON AND WATER
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Read moreA soil rich in iron ore, a territory covered by forests and water favored the birth of metallurgy in the country of Châteaubriant in the seventeenth century. The Hunaudière forges, the site of La Forge Neuve… the beautiful houses of the master are the nostalgic remains of an industry that knows its apogee in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. But the invention of the forged forge in English competition the metallurgy to wood. The use of coke in blast furnaces and the appearance of steel sound like the ice. In 1884 the last furnace, that of the Hunaudière, ceased its activity.