Pretty villages, monuments - Heritage - Atlantic Loire Valley, France

Fours a chaux de Chateaupanne

MAUGES-SUR-LOIRE

Montjean the White : lime kilns dated from the 18th and the 19th centuries. Some of which are classified historical monument.

SALLERTAINE

The Moulin de Rairé is the only windmill in France to have run continuously - and solely on the wind - since it was built in 1555.

PETIT-MARS

BREM-SUR-MER

Dating from the Neolithic period, it bears witness to human occupation of the coastline from prehistoric times.

LE BERNARD

The sandstone roof slab is 5m long and 3m wide. Listed as a Historic Monument in 1929.

CHAUMES-EN-RETZ

CHEFFES

GIVRAND

ARANOV (Association pour la Recherche Archéologique sur l'Ouest et le Nord-Ouest Vendée) carried out the excavations between 1985

CHAUMES-EN-RETZ

BLAIN