Historic Sites & Monuments

Explore our various collections, including the Egyptian room with its mummies. With over 2500 specimens, this is also one of the region's largest ornithological museums.

Nestled among the rolling green hills of Perche, the church of Saint-Denis includes a 16th-century baptistry which is a listed Historical Monument. Information panels at the entrance

It was from this chapel that the Children's Crusade set out in 1212, headed by shepherd boy Estienne de Cloyes. The legend says that 20,000 children left for the Holy Land and never returned...

A church with beautiful medieval frescoes. The Romanesque apse reveals some 12th and 13th century frescoes which are very iconographically interesting, represent Christ in Majesty, scenes from the Passion of Christ, and from the Life of ...

Located at the chevet of Chartres Cathedral (13th century), this jewel of 14th-century architecture, adorned with a magnificent collection of antique stained glass windows, was, from the 1970s to the early 2000s, the setting for the precious and ...

The Château de Moléans is a physical textbook of French architectural history... Tours of the exterior.