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Saint-Emilion UNESCO world heritage sites

Saint-Emilion center

Cardinal Palace at 2 Rue Guadet
The ruins of the fassade still present today make us think that this magnificent palace was built as early as the 12th century. Indeed, Romanesque artistic elements are present: semicircular arch for the openings whose voussures present geometric and vegetal decorations; the geminated bays and their neat decorations similar to other monuments of the medieval city dating from the early 12th century.

Collegiate church on Place Pierre Meyrat
The construction started in 1110 at the request of the Archbishop Arnaud Géraud de Cabanac. The transept and the core of the Collegiate church were transformed between the 13th and 15th centuries, letting the gothic style influencing the architecture of the church.

Monolithic Church on Place du Marche
The monolithic church is an underground religious building dugged in the early 12th century of gigantic proportions (38 metres long and 12 metres high). At the heart of the city, the monolithic church reminds the religious activity of the city in the Middle Ages and intrigues by its unusual design.

Kings Castle at 483A Rue du Chateau du Roy
The only Romanesque keep still intact in the Gironde, it rests on a rocky massif isolated from all sides and dug in natural caves and quarries exploited since the Middle Ages.

Saint-Emilion surroundings

Romanesque churches in Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes + Saint-Laurent-des-Combes + Saint-Hippolyte + Saint-Étienne-de-Lisse + Saint-Pey-d'Armens + Vignonet + Saint-Sulpice-de-Faleyrens
The association of the built and the non-built landscape, of stones, vineyards, wood and water, makes this an outstanding cultural landscape.

Menhir de Peyrefitte in Saint-Sulpice-de-Faleyrens
A listed historic monument since 1889, with a height of 5,50 m and a weight of approximately 50 tons, it is the biggest megalith in the south-west France.