The guide about the French sites inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List

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Guide
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UNESCO World Heritage
Patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO
France

Guide pages

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(only first page of each site are presented)

map of World Heritage in France

Contents of the guide:
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• Cover

• Preface

• Contents

• UNESCO and the French Commission, criteria for selection on the World Heritage List

• French Sites insribed
(click on a region of France to see pages of the guide)
    North-West
    North-East
    Center
    South-West
    South-East
    Sites with location throughout France and site outside metropolitan France

• Glossary, elements of Architecture, distances between sites

• Alphabetical list of places mentioned

• General foldout map of France, 592x420 mm at the back of the book
(pdf - 3037 ko)

	French Sites (by alphabetical order) inscribed on the World Heritage List of UNESCO:
	• Amiens, Cathedral (06) • Arc-et-Senans: from the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal, Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the production of ignigenous salt (12) • Arles, Roman and Romanesque monuments (29) • Avignon, Historic centre: Papal Palace, episcopal ensemble and Avignon Bridge (28) • Belfries of France (Belfries of Belgium and France) (05) • Bordeaux, Port of the Moon (20) • Bourges, Cathedral (04) • Canal du Midi (22) • Carcassonne, Historic fortified city (23) • Chartres, Cathedral (15) • Fontainebleau, Palace and park (16) • Fontenay, Cistercian Abbey (10) • Fortifications of Vauban (32) • Le Havre, The city rebuilt by Auguste Perret (02) • Loire: The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes-sur-Loire (03) • Lyon, historic site (25) • Mont Perdu - Pyrénées (24) • Mont-Saint-Michel and its bay (01)		• Nancy, Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d’Alliance (08) • New Caledonia, lagoons: reef diversity and associated ecosystems (33) • Orange, Roman theatre, its surroundings and the triumphal arch (26) • Paris, banks of the Seine (13) • Pont du Gard (27) • Porto - Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve (30) • Provins, town of medieval fairs (17) • Pyrenees - Mont Perdu (24) • Reims, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, former abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau (07) • Saint-Emilion - Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion (21) • Santiago de Compostela: routes in France (31) • Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe, Abbey Church (18) • Salins-les-Bains: from the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal, Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the production of ignigenous salt (12) • Strasbourg - Grande Ile (09) • Vauban: fortifications (32) • Versailles, Palace and park (14) • Vezelay, church and hill (11) • Vezere Valley: Prehistoric sites and decorated caves (19)