Selection of the most beautiful monuments in Aquitaine

Château Médiéval et Renaissance
24160 Excideuil

The château d'Excideuil, a former castle from the 11th to the 18th century, dominates the Loue Valley in Excideuil, Dordogne (New Aquitaine). Ranked a historic monument, it combines medieval architecture and Renaissance.

Grotte ornée
24620 Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil

The Font-de-Gaume Cave, located at the Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in Dordogne, is a prehistoric site decorated with more than 200 Magdalenian engravings and paintings, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.

Château de style Gothique
24580 Rouffignac-Saint-Cernin-de-Reilhac

The Château de l'Herm, built in the 15th and 16th centuries in Rouffignac-Saint-Cernin-de-Reilhac in the Dordogne, is a listed historical monument, famous for its Renaissance architecture and its turbulent history linked to the Calvimont and Hautefort families.

Château Médiéval et Renaissance
24540 Biron

Biron Castle, built between the 12th and 17th centuries, dominates the village of Biron in the Dordogne. Former medieval fortress transformed into an aristocratic residence, it embodies the tumultuous history of the Périgord and the families of Gontaut-Biron, with its dungeons, double chapel and classified gardens.

Abris sous roche
24620 Tursac

The Madeleine shelter in Tursac, Dordogne, is a major prehistoric site of the Upper Paleolithic, classified at UNESCO and emblematic of the Magdalenian, with traces of medieval troglodytic occupation.

Château fort
24620 Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil

The castle of Tayac, built in the 12th and 16th centuries in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in New Aquitaine, is a partially troglodytic medieval building, classified as a historical monument in 1968, now home to the National Museum of Prehistory.

Château de style Renaissance
24530 Villars

The Château de Puyguilhem, a 16th century Renaissance building in Villars, Dordogne, combines medieval influences with the style of the Loire castles. A secondary residence near François I, it is now classified as a historical monument.

Château fort
64130 Mauléon Licharre

Mauléon Castle, known as the "old castle", is a medieval castle located in Mauléon-Licharre, New Aquitaine, listed as a historical monument since 1925. Built in the 11th century, it dominates the city from a pentagonal hill.