Selection of the most beautiful monuments in the Loire

Pont du Diable
42680 Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez

The Pont du Diable de Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez, built in the 12th and 14th centuries, is an emblematic medieval bridge located in the Loire, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, crossing the Mare at the place called Verines.

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.

Eglise romane
42610 Saint-Romain-le-Puy

The Prioral Church of Saint-Romain-le-Puy, built between the 10th and 14th centuries, dominates the plain of Forez from a volcanic piton. This historic monument, classified in 1862, combines Romanesque architecture and Gallo-Roman remains in the Loire.

Couvent
42190 Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu

The Cordeliers convent, built in the 14th century in Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu (Loire), is a former Franciscan convent in Gothic style, famous for its classified cloister and medieval mural church.

Eglise moderne
42700 Firminy

The church Saint-Pierre de Firminy, designed by Le Corbusier in the 1960s, is a crude concrete building located in the Loire, emblematic of modern religious architecture of the twentieth century.

Eglise gothique
42100 Saint-Etienne

The Grand'Église Saint-Étienne, the Gothic building of the 15th-17th centuries in Saint-Étienne (Loire), combines the Forezian style with the turbulent history, marked by the Wars of Religion and the Revolution.

Château Médiéval et Renaissance
42210 Bellegarde-en-Forez

The castle of Bellegarde-en-Forez, built between the 15th and 19th centuries, dominates the plain of Forez in the Loire. This monument combining Renaissance and medieval remains bears witness to the history of the local lords and the Counts of Forez.

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.