Take advantage of the search to browse through the World Heritage Centre information.

The List World Heritage List

World Heritage List

view_list List view table_chartTable view
States Parties:Franceclose
Order by: Yearclose
53
Properties
7
Transboundary
1
States Parties with properties out of 196
0
Delisted
0
In Danger
44
Cultural
7
Natural
2
Mixed
Year Name of the property Country Type Region Property (ha) ID
1979 Chartres Cathedral FR C EUR 1 81
1979 Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay FR C EUR 6,560 80
1979 Palace and Park of Versailles FR C EUR 1,070 83
1979 Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley FR C EUR 106 85
1979 Vézelay, Church and Hill FR C EUR 183 84
1981 Amiens Cathedral FR C EUR 2 162
1981 Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments FR C EUR 65 164
1981 Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay FR C EUR 6 165
1981 Palace and Park of Fontainebleau FR C EUR 144 160
1981 Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the "Triumphal Arch" of Orange FR C EUR 9 163
1982 From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the Production of Open-pan Salt FR C EUR 10 203
1983 Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe FR C EUR 2 230
1983 Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve # FR N EUR 11,800 258
1983 Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance in Nancy FR C EUR 7 229
1985 Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct) FR C EUR 0 344
1988 Strasbourg, Grande-Île and Neustadt FR C EUR 183 495
1991 Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau, Reims FR C EUR 4 601
1991 Paris, Banks of the Seine FR C EUR 365 600
1992 Bourges Cathedral FR C EUR 1 635
1995 Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge FR C EUR 8 228
1996 Canal du Midi FR C EUR 2,007 770
1997 Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne FR C EUR 11 345
1997 Pyrénées - Mont Perdu * FR M EUR 30,639 773
1998 Historic Site of Lyon FR C EUR 427 872
1998 Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France FR C EUR 97 868
1999 Belfries of Belgium and France * 1 FR C EUR 0 943
1999 Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion FR C EUR 7,847 932
2000 The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes 2 FR C EUR 86,021 933
2001 Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs FR C EUR 108 873
2005 Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret FR C EUR 133 1181
2007 Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe * FR N EUR 99,948 1133
2007 Bordeaux, Port of the Moon FR C EUR 1,731 1256
2008 Fortifications of Vauban FR C EUR 1,153 1283
2008 Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems FR N EUR 1,574,300 1115
2010 Episcopal City of Albi FR C EUR 19 1337
2010 Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island FR N EUR 105,838 1317
2011 Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps * FR C EUR 274 1363
2011 The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape FR C EUR 302,319 1153
2012 Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin FR C EUR 3,943 1360
2014 Decorated Cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche FR C EUR 9 1426
2015 Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars FR C EUR 1,102 1465
2015 The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy FR C EUR 13,219 1425
2016 The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement * FR C EUR 98 1321
2017 Taputapuātea FR C EUR 2,124 1529
2018 Chaîne des Puys - Limagne fault tectonic arena FR N EUR 24,223 1434
2019 French Austral Lands and Seas FR N EUR 166,267,100 1603
2021 Cordouan Lighthouse FR C EUR 23,582 1625
2021 Nice, Winter Resort Town of the Riviera FR C EUR 522 1635
2021 The Great Spa Towns of Europe * FR C EUR 7,014 1613
2023 Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) * FR C EUR 880 1567
2023 The Maison Carrée of Nîmes FR C EUR 0 1569
2023 Volcanoes and Forests of Mount Pelée and the Pitons of Northern Martinique FR N EUR 13,980 1657
2024 Te Henua Enata – The Marquesas Islands FR M EUR 345,749 1707
Notes

  1. The “Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia” which were previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, are part of the transnational property “The Belfries of Belgium and France”.

  2. The "Chateau and Estate of Chambord", which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the "Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes".

*: transboundary property

#: As for 19 Natural and Mixed Properties inscribed for geological values before 1994, criteria numbering of this property has changed. See Decision 30.COM 8D.1

Legend
Category of property

Cultural Natural Mixed

Property inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger

Cultural Natural Mixed

Disclaimer

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate the preparations of comparative analysis by other nominating States Parties.

The sole responsibility for the content of each Nomination file lies with the State Party concerned. The publication of the Nomination file, including the maps and names, does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever of the World Heritage Committee or of the Secretariat of UNESCO concerning the history or legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its boundaries.

World Heritage Online Map Platform

The World Heritage Online Map Platform, supported by the Flanders UNESCO Trustfund (FUT), is a pilot online geographic information system displaying georeferenced maps of World Heritage properties and buffer zones.

Go to the Platform
Official World Heritage List in other formats
Statistics

Official World Heritage List Statistics

Order World Heritage List
Wall Map

A large format full-colour map is available in English, French and Spanish. The dimensions of the map are 78cm by 50cm (31 in. by 20 in.).

top