List of World Heritage Sites in France



This is a list of World Heritage Sites in France with properties of cultural and natural heritage in France as inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List or as on the country's tentative list. France accepted the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on 27 June 1975, after which it could nominate properties on their territory to be considered for the World Heritage List.

Currently, 49 properties in France are inscribed on the World Heritage List. 42 of these are cultural properties, 6 are natural properties, and 1 is mixed. Four properties are transboundary properties. The first was added to the list in 1979 and the latest in 2019. Five properties were submitted in 1979. The tentative list of France contains 37 properties.

The names in the tables below are the names of the properties as used on the website of UNESCO. There are three different types of properties possible: cultural, natural, and mixed. Selection criteria i, ii, iii, iv, v, and vi are the cultural criteria, and selection criteria vii, viii, ix, and x are the natural criteria. The dates for the properties on the World Heritage List are the dates of inscription, the dates for the tentative list are those of submission. The numbers are the reference numbers as used by UNESCO, and they link directly to the description pages of the properties on the UNESCO website.

Properties submitted on the Tentative List
Property names as submitted by France and year of inscription on Tentative List. Translation of site names provided in italics for reference purposes; official translation of site name proposed only once site is put forward for consideration on World Heritage List.


 * Sites mégalithiques de Carnac, 1996. Carnac megalithic sites
 * Cathédrale de Saint-Denis, 1996. Saint-Denis Cathedral
 * Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou, 1996. Rouen: timber-framed urban area, Rouen Cathedral, Basilica of Saint Ouen, Church of Saint Maclou
 * Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, 1996. Vaux-le-Vicomte Castle
 * Les villes bastionnées des Pays-Bas du nord-ouest de l'Europe, 1996. Fortified cities of the Low Countries of north-western Europe
 * Montagne Sainte-Victoire et sites cézaniens, 1996. Mount Saint Victoire and Paul Cézanne sites
 * Ensemble de grottes à concrétions du Sud de la France, 2000. Concretion cave complexes in southern France
 * Parc national de la Vanoise, 2000. Vanoise National Park
 * Massif du Mont Blanc, 2000. Mont Blanc
 * La Camargue, 2002. The Camargue
 * Bouches de Bonifacio, 2002. Strait of Bonifacio
 * Parc national des Écrins, 2002. Écrins National Park
 * Parc national de Port-Cros, 2002. Port Cros National Park
 * Marais salants de Guérande, 2002. Guérande salt marshes
 * Le rivage méditerranéen des Pyrénées, 2002. Mediterranean shore of the Pyrenees Mountains
 * Rade de Marseille, 2002. Bay of Marseille
 * Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire : Nîmes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducts, via Domitia, 2002. Roman Narbonensian cities and area: Nîmes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducts, via Domitia
 * Le chemin de fer de Cerdagne, 2002. Cerdagne railway
 * Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales, Meudon, 2002. National Aerospace Research Centre, Meudon
 * Hangar Y, 2002. Hangar Y
 * Ancienne chocolaterie Menier à Noisiel, 2002. Former Menier chocolate factory in Noisiel
 * Centre ancien de Sarlat, 2002. Historic centre of Sarlat
 * Arsenal de Rochefort et fortifications de l'estuaire de la Charente, 2002. Rochefort arsenal and fortifications of the Charente Rivers estuary
 * Les Iles Marquises, 2010. Marquesas Islands
 * Metz Royal et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine, 2014. Royal and Imperial Metz, power plays, stylistic exchange and urban identity
 * Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944, 2014. Allied landing beaches in Normandy, 1944
 * Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne, 2017. City of Carcassonne and its mountain sentinel castles.
 * Le Charolais-Brionnais, paysage culturel de l'élevage bovin, 2018. Charolais-Brionnais region, a cultural landscape for cattle farming
 * Domaine de Fontainebleau : château, jardins, parc et forêt, 2020. Fontainebleau Castle, Gardens, Park and Forest
 * Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre, 2021. The built heritage of the construction of a State in the Pyrenees: the Co-principality of Andorra
 * Saint-Honorat, Île monastique de l’archipel de Lérins à Cannes, 2022. Saint-Honorat, a monastic island in the Lérins archipelago at Cannes
 * L’observatoire du pic du Midi de Bigorre, pionnier en haute montagne, 2022. Pic du Midi de Bigorre Observatory, a high-altitude pioneer