Selection of the most beautiful monuments in Vendée

Commanderie templière
85300 Challans

The Coudrie Commanderie, founded in the 12th century in Challans (Vendée), is an ancient Templar Commanderie classified as a historical monument, marked by its rectangular church and flat bedside typical of Temple architecture.

Moulin à vent
85710 Châteauneuf

The Petit-Moulin de Châteauneuf is a windmill from the 1st quarter of the 18th century, located in Châteauneuf in Vendée, classified as a historical monument for its preserved mechanism.

Château fort
85130 Tiffauges

Tiffauges Castle, an ancient castle in ruins of the 11th, 13th and 16th centuries, dominates the Nantaise Sèvre in Tiffauges (Vendée), famous for its link with Gilles de Rais and its medieval defensive architecture.

Château fort
85350 L'Île-d'Yeu

The Old Castle, 14th century castle located on the island of Yeu in Pays de la Loire, dominates an abrupt rock and bears witness to seven centuries of military and island history.

Dolmens
85350 L'Île-d'Yeu

The Dolmen des Petits Fradets, also known as "Maison de la Gournaise", is a megalithic monument of the Neolithic region located in L'Île-d'Yeu, Vendée, classified as a historical monument in 1889.

Château fort
85220 Commequiers

The Château de Comequiers, built in the 15th and 16th centuries in Vendée, is a white stone fortress dismantled in 1628. Located in a rural village in the Pays de la Loire, it bears witness to local Protestant history.

Château fort
85110 Sigournais

The castle of Sigournais, built at the end of the 15th century in Sigournais in Vendée, is a medieval castle with pentagonal architecture, surrounded by dry ditches and equipped with an iconic dungeon-porch, classified as a historical monument since 1992.

Eglise romane
85180 aux Sables-d'Olonne

Saint-Jean d'Orbestier Abbey, founded in the 12th century in Les Sables-d'Olonne, is an ancient Benedictine abbey in ruins, classified as a historical monument in 1935 in the Vendée department.