11 Sights in Poitiers, France (with Map and Images)

The Pont-Joubert fountain, sometimes wrongly called the Legat's fountain in confusion with another that was located further away, is a small building from the late Middle Ages located on the banks of the Clain river in Poitiers, in the Vienne department. It adjoins a medieval bridge, the Pont Joubert, hence its name.

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The Hôtel Gilbert is an Art Deco style mansion built in Poitiers between 1933 and 1935 by the architect André Ursault. It now houses the administrative court of Poitiers. It is located at 13, rue de Blossac.

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The Hôtel Fumé, sometimes written Fumée or Fumey, is a flamboyant Gothic style building built in Poitiers between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A building sitting at the top of the slope on which the rue de la Chaîne rushes roughly, the Hôtel Fumé now houses the administration and some rooms of the Faculty of Human Sciences of the University of Poitiers.

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The Saint-Louis chapel, commonly known as Henri-IV chapel, is a chapel built between 1608 and 1613 in Poitiers by the Jesuit order. It was attached to the college formed by these same religious after their arrival in the city in 1604.

Wikipedia: Chapelle Saint-Louis de Poitiers (FR)

The Church of Sainte-Radegonde is a medieval Roman Catholic church in Poitiers, France, dating from the 6th century. It takes its name from the Frankish queen and nun, Radegund, who was buried in the church. Considered a saint, the church became a place of pilgrimage by those devoted to her heavenly intercession. The current church, constructed from the 11th to 12th centuries, was built in a combination of Romanesque and Angevin Gothic architectural styles.

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The Musée Sainte-Croix is the largest museum in Poitiers, France. Planned by the architect poitevin Jean Monge and built in 1974, it stands at the site of the former Abbaye Sainte-Croix, which was moved to Saint-Benoît, Vienne. It is a constructed of concrete and glass, in the 1970s style.

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The Rupert-de-Chièvres Museum is the second largest museum in the French city of Poitiers, behind the Sainte-Croix Museum. The building was previously called the Augustinian Convent. [citation needed]

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The Blossac Park is a historic private garden, now a public park, in Poitiers, France. It was established by Paul Esprit Marie de La Bourdonnaye, Count of Blossac, in the 18th century. It is the largest park in Poitiers.

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Notre-Dame-la-Grande is a Romanesque collegiate church in Poitiers. Characteristic of the Poitevin Romanesque style, its sculpted façade is a masterpiece of religious art of this period. The walls of the interior are painted.

Wikipedia: Église Notre-Dame la Grande de Poitiers (FR)

The Baptistery of Saint-Jean located in Poitiers is a very old Christian monument, whose origin dates back to the second half of the fourth and beginning of the fifth century. Although it has been extensively remodelled over the centuries, it is the building that best illustrates the dependence of Merovingian architecture on its ancient foundations, but also the abandonment of classical principles. Saved from demolition in 1834, it has been the subject of numerous excavation campaigns resulting in controversial syntheses. It contains a museum space with the Merovingian collections of the Society of Antiquaries of the West.

Wikipedia: Baptistère Saint-Jean (Poitiers) (FR)

The raised stone is a dolmen located in Poitiers. Known from Antiquity, the Roman road Lemonum (Poitiers) - Avaricum (Bourges) - Lugdunum (Lyon) passed nearby, it is mentioned from the Middle Ages, being the subject of several descriptions or representations, and it is associated with Local folklore.

Wikipedia: Pierre levée de Poitiers (FR)