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Grande-Sauve Abbey is the ruin of a Benedictine abbey founded in 1079 by Gerald of Sauve-Majeure in the Entre-Deux-Mers, east of Bordeaux, and a stop on the pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela. The roofless church, consecrated in 1231, keeps more than 80 carved capitals, beside a 13th-century bell tower and the walls of the monastic buildings.

The Château de Cadillac is a ducal residence begun in 1598 for Jean-Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, first Duke of Épernon, in the walled town of Cadillac on the Garonne. A women's prison and later a correctional school until 1951, it now shows painted French ceilings, monumental fireplaces and 16th- and 17th-century tapestries.