List of historic sites, monuments, museums, natural sites...

BOUVILLE

Moulin à vent Pelard

Discovery and learning about a pivoting windmill, built in wood in the typical Beauce style.

SANCHEVILLE

Moulin à vent du Paradis

Beautiful 17th century, wooden windmill built on a pivot. Entirely restored in 1995 with certain original parts: brail, grid, mills, etc.

LA FERTE-VILLENEUIL

Ecomusée de la vallée de l'Aigre

CLOYES-SUR-LE-LOIR

Chapelle romane Notre-Dame d'Yron

Small chapel with remarkable Romanesque mural frescos dating back to the 12th and 16th centuries. It was from here that, in 1212, Estinennes de Cloyes departed to the Holy Land at the head of the Children's Crusade.

ANET

Château d'Anet

A jewel of French Renaissance architecture built by Philippe l'Orme, humanist and architect of Henri II. The castle of Diane of Poitiers, it is a masterpiece.

DREUX

Chapelle Royale Saint-Louis

Exceptional exemple of 19th-century art. The neo-gothic chapel and the stained glass windows are signed by the greatest artists of the time: Delacroix, Millet, Ingres, Lenoir, Mercié, Vernet and many more.

DREUX

Musée d'art et d'histoire Marcel Dessal

Archeology, history, architecture, decorative arts, painting, engraving

DREUX

Ecomusée des Vignerons et Artisans Drouais

From the 12th-century cellars of Saint Thibault Priory to the workshop of the lost craftsmen (blacksmith, cartwright).

RUEIL-LA-GADELIERE

Château de la Gadelière

At the natural frontier between the dukedom of Normandy and Thimerais, this fortified house defended the village during the Hundred Years War. The village has many characteristic remains.

SAINT-LUBIN-DES-JONCHERETS

Château de Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets

On the banks of the Avre, a lovely castle built in the 17th century and redesigned in the 18th. The irregular stone contrasts well with the lines of crick.