🇫🇷 France · Fortress
Argentomagus
The Roman city of Argentomagus was located in the Mersans plateau of central France, at the strategic point on the north bank of the river Creuse, where a Roman bridge once traversed.
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🇫🇷 France · Fortress
The Roman city of Argentomagus was located in the Mersans plateau of central France, at the strategic point on the north bank of the river Creuse, where a Roman bridge once traversed.
🇫🇷 France · Temple complex
The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud or Fontevrault (in French: abbaye de Fontevraud) was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near Chinon, in the former French Duchy of Anjou.
🇫🇷 France · Fortress
Antibes (, US also, French: [ɑ̃tib]; Occitan: Antíbol [anˈtibu]) is a seaside resort city in the Alpes-Maritimes department in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Southeastern France.
🇫🇷 France · Rock shelter
Castel Merle (also known as Castel-Merle or Castelmerle) is a complex of ten prehistoric rock shelters (French: abris) in Sergeac, in the Dordogne department of France.
🇫🇷 France · Temple complex
The Grand Mosque of Paris (French: Grande Mosquée de Paris, pronounced [ɡʁɑ̃d mɔske d(ə) paʁi]; Arabic: مسجد باريس الكبير), also known as the Great Mosque of Paris or simply the Paris Mosque, located…
🇫🇷 France · Rock shelter
La Quina is a Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic site in Gardes-le-Pontaroux, Charente, France. Two Neanderthal skulls were found there, La Quina 5 and La Quina 18.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Abbeville (French: [abvil]; West Flemish: Abbekerke; Picard: Advile) is a commune in the Somme department and in Hauts-de-France region in northern France.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
The Goya Museum (French: Musée Goya) is an art museum located in Castres, France. The museum was originally established in 1840 and was named after the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, because it has…
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Roman Empire
Lugdunum Convenarum was a Roman town in the central Pyrenees, on the site of modern Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges in the Haute-Garonne department of southern France.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
The Glozel artifacts are a collection of over 3,000 artifacts, including forged clay tablets, sculptures and vases, some of which were inscribed, discovered from 1924 to 1930 in the vicinity of…
🇫🇷 France · Rock shelter
Cro-Magnon ( kroh-MAN-yon or kroh-MAG-nən; French: abri de Cro-Magnon [abʁi d(ə) kʁomaɲɔ̃]; Occitan: abric de Cròsmanhon) is an Aurignacian (Upper Paleolithic) site, located in a rock shelter in the…
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
The Château de Randan was a former royal domain in the French town of Randan in the department of Puy-de-Dôme.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Castellane (French pronunciation: [kastɛlan]; Provençal Occitan: Castelana) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
The Château de Rambouillet (pronounced [ʃɑto d(ə) ʁɑ̃bujɛ]), also known in English as the Castle of Rambouillet, is a château in the town of Rambouillet, Yvelines department, in the Île-de-France…
🇫🇷 France · Temple complex
The Abbey of Saint-Victor, Marseille (Occitan: Abadiá de Sant Victor, Marselha) is a former abbey that was founded during the late Roman period in Marseille in the south of France, named after the…
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Lillebonne (French pronunciation: [lilbɔn]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in Northern France. It lies 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of the Seine and 24 miles (39 km) east of Le Havre.
🇫🇷 France · Temple complex
The Abbey of Saint-Médard de Soissons was a Benedictine monastery, at one time held to be the greatest in France.