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Ruin Attractions In Pays de la Loire

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Pays de la Loire is one of the 18 regions of France. It is one of the regions created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital, Nantes, one of a handful of so-called balancing metropolises ¹.
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Ruin Attractions In Pays de la Loire

  • 1. Clisson Castle Clisson
    Jeanne de Clisson , also known as Jeanne de Belleville and the Lioness of Brittany, was a Breton privateer who plied the English Channel. Jeanne Louise de Belleville, de Clisson, Dame de Montaigu, was born in 1300 in Belleville-sur-Vie in the Vendee, a daughter of nobleman Maurice IV Montaigu of Belleville and Palluau and Létice de Parthenay of Parthenay in the Gâtine Vendéenne.
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  • 5. Chateau de Ranrouet Herbignac
    The Château du Ranroët is a castle existing since the 12th century, located in Herbignac in the Loire-Atlantique department of France. Since 1925, the Château du Ranroët has been listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.
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  • 6. Thermes Gallo-Romains Entrammes
    The Roman-Gaul Baths of Entrammes is a group of Gallo-Roman thermal baths in Entrammes, Mayenne, France. It was discovered in 1987.
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  • 7. Carnac stones Carnac
    The Carnac stones are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites around the village of Carnac in Brittany, consisting of alignments, dolmens, tumuli and single menhirs. More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were hewn from local rock and erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany, and form the largest such collection in the world. Most of the stones are within the Breton village of Carnac, but some to the east are within La Trinité-sur-Mer. The stones were erected at some stage during the Neolithic period, probably around 3300 BCE, but some may date to as early as 4500 BCE.Although the stones date from 4500 BCE, modern myths were formed which resulted from 1st century AD Roman and later Christian occupations. A Christian myth associated with the stones held that they wer...
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  • 9. Tumulus de Dissignac Saint Nazaire
    A tumulus is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or kurgans, and may be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, which is a mound of stones built for various purposes, may also originally have been a tumulus. Tumuli are often categorised according to their external apparent shape. In this respect, a long barrow is a long tumulus, usually constructed on top of several burials, such as passage graves. A round barrow is a round tumulus, also commonly constructed on top of burials. The internal structure and architecture of both long and round barrows has a broad range, the categorization only refers to the external apparent shape. The method of inhumation may involve a dolmen, a cist, a mortuary enclosure, a mortuary h...
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  • 10. Chateau du Bois Thibault Lassay Les Chateaux
    The Château du Bois Thibault is a 15th-century ruined castle in the commune of Lassay-les-Châteaux, Pays de la Loire, France. It was owned by the du Bellay family for nearly 300 years. It is a listed national historic monument of France.
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