Outgoing
Lanterne des morts 1
Walking Tour
Lanterne des morts 2
Lanterne des morts 3
Lanterne des morts 4
Lanterne des morts 5

Lanterne des morts

Les Moutiers-en-Retz

A thousand-year-old sentinel still keeping watch. This rare medieval Lantern of the Dead lights up whenever someone in the village dies, a living tradition from the early Middle Ages that turns death into a shared, luminous moment.

Medieval monument
Still in operation
Rare funerary tradition
11th century history

Tips

💀"where current events and mystery mingle"
🪜internal staircase exists but closed to visitors
pair with the church directly opposite

Lanterne des morts

44760 Les Moutiers-en-Retz, France