France

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Notes:

• Overseas territories are not included on this map, but are listed below.
• The Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France sites are on a separate map below.

Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes

Historic Site of Lyon
A city with 2000 years of history visible in its urban center’s architecture.

Chaîne des Puys – Limagne fault tectonic arena

Decorated Cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the Production of Open-pan Salt
Two locations that exemplify the historical process of salt production and industrial architecture.

The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy

Fortifications of Vauban

Vézelay, Church and Hill

Centre-Val de Loire

Bourges Cathedral

Chartres Cathedral

Corse

Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve

Grand-Est

Strasbourg, Grande-Île and Neustadt
Two districts, one exemplifying medieval cities, the other a model of modern city planning.

Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d’Alliance in Nancy
Three elegant 18th-century city plazas.

Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau, Reims
Three medieval structures central to the history of Christianity and coronations in France.

Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars

Haut-de-France

Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin

Ile-de-France

Paris, Banks of the Seine
A 365-hectare corridor that encompasses many of the most famous sights in Paris, spanning centuries of the city’s development.

Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs
A beautifully intact example of a medieval trading city.

Palace and Park of Versailles
Elegant and grand 17th-century royal residence and park, seat of the French monarchy from Louis XIV to Louis XVI.

Palace and Park of Fontainebleau

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay

Langedoc

Episcopal City of Albi
A small city with a rich collection of Medieval and Renaissance architecture.

Normandie

Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay
A magnificent Gothic abbey on top of a small island in a bay with dramatic tides.

Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Bordeaux, Port of the Moon

Cordouan Lighthouse

Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion

Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe

Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley

Occitanie

Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne
A classic medieval fortified town with intact walls, a castle, and a Gothic cathedral.

Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)
A 3-tiered stone aqueduct and bridge that demonstrates Roman-era construction processes.

Canal du Midi
A 360-km canal plus locks, tunnels and bridges: a 17th-century feat of engineering.

The Maison Carrée of Nîmes

Picardie

Amiens Cathedral

Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur

Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments
A grand Roman city and its later Romanesque additions, well-preserved in Arles city center.

Nice, Winter Resort Town of the Riviera
An early example of a city that developed due to tourism.

Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge

Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the “Triumphal Arch” of Orange

Multi-region

The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape
A rural landscape shaped by centuries of farming, where old agricultural techniques are still in use.

The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes

Pyrénées – Mont Perdu

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France (see map below)

Transnational sites

The Great Spa Towns of Europe
Towns in seven countries where an early tourism industry thrived around natural hot springs.

Belfries of Belgium and France

Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe

French Austral Lands and Seas

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement

Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) (Belgium and France)