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Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans

France
Date of Inscription: 1982
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iv)
Core zone: 8.57 ha
Department of Doubs, Franche-Comté Region
N47 1 59 E5 46 52
Ref: 203

Brief Description

The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, was built by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. Its construction, begun in 1775 during the reign of Louis XVI, was the first major achievement of industrial architecture, reflecting the ideal of progress of the Enlightenment. This vast, semicircular complex was designed to permit a rational and hierarchical organization of work and was to have been followed by the building of an ideal city, a project that was never realized.

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