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Lanterne des morts

Les Moutiers-en-Retz

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

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
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