UNESCO World Heritage Sites in France

France is home to 48 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Of those, there are 41 cultural sites, 6 natural sites and 1 mixed sites. France shares 5 of those sites with other countries.

The World Heritage Sites in France are:

• Chartres Cathedral

• Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay

  

• Palace and Park of Versailles

  

• Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley

• Vézelay, Church and Hill

• Amiens Cathedral

• Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments

• Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay

• Palace and Park of Fontainebleau

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

• From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of

  Arc-et-Senans, the Production of Open-pan Salt

• Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe

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

• Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d’Alliance in Nancy

• Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)

  

• Strasbourg, Grande-Île and Neustadt

• Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau, Reims

• Paris, Banks of the Seine

  

• Bourges Cathedral

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

• Canal du Midi

• Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne

• Pyrénées – Mont Perdu*

• Historic Site of Lyon

• Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France

• Belfries of Belgium and France*

• Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion

• The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes

• Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs

• Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret

• Bordeaux, Port of the Moon

• Fortifications of Vauban

• Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems

• Episcopal City of Albi

• Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island

• Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps*

• The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape

• Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin

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

• Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars

  

• The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy

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

• Taputapuātea

• Chaîne des Puys – Limagne fault tectonic arena

• French Austral Lands and Seas

• The Great Spa Towns of Europe

• Cordouan Lighthouse

• Nice, Winter Resort Town of the Riviera

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

• Volcanoes and Forests of Mount Pelée and the Pitons of Northern Martinique

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

• The Maison Carrée of Nîmes