Château d'Harcourt, built between the 13th and 15th centuries, is the best-preserved castle in Chauvigny.
In the 13th century, a member of the noble Norman Harcourt family married the Viscountess of Châtellerault, who owned the estate. The castle remained in the Harcourt family for two centuries before being acquired by the Bishops of Poitiers in 1447.
The nearly rectangular fortress has high curtain walls, originally crenellated, with solid cylindrical towers. Measuring 38 by 25 meters, the enclosure dates from the 13th century. The entrance is protected by a gatehouse with a murder hole and a portcullis, but no drawbridge. The rectangular keep, with flat buttresses, was renovated in the 14th century. The ground floor contains a vaulted prison, still in use in the 19th century, with a door mechanism allowing one entrance to block another.
Attached to the keep, the heavily altered residence now hosts exhibition spaces.
The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the municipality of Steingaden.
The sanctuary of Wies is a pilgrimage church extraordinarily well-preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, and is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.
The hamlet of Wies, in 1738, is said to have been the setting of a miracle in which tears were seen on a simple wooden figure of Christ mounted on a column that was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensian monks of the Abbey. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary.