Selection of the most beautiful monuments in Vendée

Château Médiéval et Renaissance
85220 Apremont

The Château d'Apremont, built in the 16th century in Vendée, is a rare example of a transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, overlooking the valley of Life in Apremont.

Abbaye
85580 Saint-Michel-en-l'Herm

The Royal Abbey of Saint-Michel-en-l'Herm, a former Benedictine abbey of the 17th and 18th centuries, is located in Saint-Michel-en-l'Herm in Vendée, classified as a historic monument since 1973.

Musée des hommes d'état et des Présidents
85520 Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard

Georges Clemenceau's house in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard is an early 20th-century vendean farmhouse, classified as a historical monument, where the politician lived from 1919 to 1929, facing the Atlantic Ocean, now transformed into a museum preserving its furniture and impressionist gardens.

Château
85110 Sigournais

The Château-Neuf de Sigournais, built in the early 19th century, is a neo-classical residence located in Sigournais in Vendée, replacing an ancient medieval castle destroyed in 1793.

Château fort
85440 Talmont-Saint-Hilaire

The castle of Talmont-Saint-Hilaire, a medieval fortress of the 11th-XVIth centuries, dominates the vendean coast in Talmont-Saint-Hilaire (Pays de la Loire). Former seat of a principality, it was dismantled in the seventeenth century by Richelieu.

Halle
85540 Moutiers-les-Mauxfaits

The Halles de Moutiers-les-Mauxfaits, built in the 18th century, are an emblematic historical monument located in the commune of Vendean, in Pays de la Loire.

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.

Architecture gothique flamboyant
85200 Fontenay-le-Comte

The church of Notre-Dame de Fontenay-le-Comte, a flamboyant Gothic building dating from the 15th to the 16th century in Vendée, listed as a historical monument in 1862, dominates the ancient medieval city with its 83-metre bell tower.