Historic Sites & Monuments

A lighthouse in the sea of wheat fields in Zola's Beauce region! The last stone windmill in Eure-et-Loir is still in working order! You can see it from 8km away, with its rotating roofing which functions using a 14-metre long tail and a wingspan of ...

This innovative museum, with images and artefacts backed up with text and fun reconstructions, takes you right back the Middle Ages, as you follow the adventures of local knight Hugues III du Puiset in the years 1111 and 1112.

Enter the "secret gardens" of the Sun King. Discover the furnished home of Madame de Maintenon, whose eternal youth charmed Louis XIV the all-powerful.

In a converted 19th-century chapel, the museum presents its collection of 19th and 20th century artworks (including Monet's wisteria) alongside medieval sculptures, decorative pieces and archaeological artefacts etc. Exhibitions and events for ...

Built in the 13th century, renovated in the 15th century, enlarged in the 16th century and completed in the 17th century, the Church of St. Peter is a vast composite building that is no less harmonious. Decorated with stained glass windows from the ...

18th-century house in a country setting. Beautiful 17th-century dovecote.