Selection of the most beautiful monuments in the Rhône-Alpes

Château de style Classique
01480 Fareins

Fléchères Castle, built at the beginning of the seventeenth century in Fareins in the Ain, is an architectural gem combining medieval fort house and Baroque decor, classified as a historical monument for its Protestant history and exceptional frescoes.

Eglise romane
42110 Pouilly-lès-Feurs

The Collège Saint-Pierre de Pouilly-lès-Feurs is a Romanesque church of the 11th and 12th centuries, classified as a historical monument in 1911, located in the Loire in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is attached to a clunisian priory founded in the tenth century.

Temple Gallo-romain
38200 Vienne

The Temple of Augustus and Livius, built in the first century in Vienna (Isera), is a Corinthian Roman temple dedicated to imperial worship, transformed into a church and restored in the nineteenth century. Symbol of Antiquity in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Château de style Gothique
42590 Saint-Priest-la-Roche

The château de la Roche, built in the 13th century on a rocky piton in Saint-Priest-la-Roche (Loire), dominates the Loire and was in turn medieval fortress, neo-Gothic residence and immersive cultural site now accessible on an island.

Château Médiéval et Renaissance
42920 Chalmazel-Jeansagnière

Chalmazel Castle, a medieval fortress of the 13th and 16th centuries, dominates the Lignon Valley in Chalmazel-Jeansagnière, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Built as a stronghold of Forez, it combines defensive architecture and seigneurial heritage.

Eglise gothique
42720 La Bénisson-Dieu

The Abbey of Bénisson-Dieu, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery at La Bénisson-Dieu (Loire), combines medieval and Baroque architecture after renovations in the 15th and 17th centuries. Ranked historic monument in 1840.

Théâtre gallo-romain
38200 Vienne

The ancient Vienna theatre, built in the 1st century, is a major Roman monument located in Vienna in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. With its 130 m in diameter, it could accommodate up to 14,000 spectators, one of the largest theatres in Gaul.

Chartreuse
38380 Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse

The Great Chartreuse, a Cartusian monastery founded in the 11th century, is a historic gem located in Saint-Pierre-de-Chartrouse in Isère. This emblematic place, rebuilt in the 15th and 17th centuries, embodies hermitic life and Cartusian spirituality in the heart of the Alps.