Selection of the most beautiful monuments in the Rhône-Alpes

Château de style Louis XIII
01800 Joyeux

The château de Joyeux, built between the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Joyeux (Ain), is a unique building designed by landscape architect Henri Duchêne for a silk industrialist.

Chartreuse
01470 Bénonces

The Chartreuse de Portes, founded in 1115, is a Cartusian monastery located in Bénonces, Ain, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The third oldest Chartreuse of France, it is nicknamed the 'Charter of Saints' because of its beatified or canonized monks.

Château fort
07130 Saint-Péray

The castle of Crussol, a medieval fortress of the 12th and 16th centuries, dominates the Rhône valley in Saint-Péray (Ardèche). Ruined but classified, it controlled a strategic axis and harbours remarkable biodiversity.

Château
01330 Bouligneux

Bouligneux Castle, a former 14th-century fortress renovated in the 16th-17th century, dominates the commune of Bouligneux (Ain) in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, surrounded by a pond and classified as a historical monument since 1926.

Château
01600 Trévoux

The castle of Fetan, an old 17th century fortress, stands in Trévoux (Ain), in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Reconstructed in 1622, it combines military architecture and seigneurial residence, partially classified with historical monuments since 1973.

Château de style Classique
01210 Ferney-Voltaire

The castle of Voltaire, an 18th-century residence at Ferney-Voltaire in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, was the residence of the philosopher who transformed it deeply. Ranked a historic monument, it now houses a library and restored rooms.

Eglise romane
07350 Cruas

The Abbey of Sainte-Marie de Cruas, a Romanesque jewel of the 11th-XIIth centuries in Ardèche, combines rare monastic rostrum and carved capitals. Ranked a historic monument since 1862, it bears witness to a Benedictine past enlivened between Gallo-Roman villa and Wars of Religion.

Ferme
01190 Boissey

Layat Farm, located in Boissey, Ain, is a building classified as a historical monument in 1936, emblematic of the agricultural heritage of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.