Selection of the most beautiful monuments in Vendée

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.

Château fort
85330 Noirmoutier-en-l'Ile

Château de Noirmoutier, 11th and 17th century castle, dominates the island of Noirmoutier in Vendée. Its medieval dungeon and its enclosure bear witness to a history marked by conflicts and military transformations.

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 fortifiée
85510 Le Boupère

Saint-Pierre du Boupere Church, a 12th century Romanesque religious building, is a fortified church located in Le Boupere in Vendée, classified as a historical monument since 1862 for its unique defensive architecture.

Eglise romane et gothique
85500 Les Herbiers

The Abbey of Notre-Dame de la Graintiere, founded in the 12th century at Les Herbiers, is an emblematic Romanesque vestige of Vendée, marked by a turbulent monastic history.

Art gothique primitif
85390 Cheffois

The church of Saint-Pierre de Cheftimes, religious building of the 13th and 15th centuries, stands in the commune of Vendean, combining medieval architecture and defensive elements unique in the Pays de la Loire.

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.

Eglise gothique
85420 Maillezais

Saint-Pierre de Maillezais Cathedral, a former Benedictine abbey from the 11th to the 14th century in Vendée, was transformed into a Gothic cathedral in 1317 before being abandoned and partially destroyed after the Revolution.