World Heritage Site

A World Heritage Site is a place (such as a building, city, complex, desert, forest, island, lake, monument, or mountain) that is listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as being of special cultural or physical significance.
The list is maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 UNESCO member states which are elected by the General Assembly.
The programme catalogues, names, and conserves sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humanity.
Under certain conditions, listed sites can obtain funds from the World Heritage Fund.
The program was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World's Cultural and Natural Heritage, which was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972.
Since then, 191 states parties have ratified the Convention, making it one of the most adhered to international instruments. Only Liechtenstein, Nauru, Somalia, South Sudan, Timor-Leste, and Tuvalu are not Party to the Convention.
As of July 2015, 1083 sites in 163 states parties.
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List of all World Heritage Site of France

1 - Chartres Cathedral - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1979
2 - Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1979
3 - Palace and Park of Versailles - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1979
4 - Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1979
5 - Vézelay, Church and Hill - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1979
6 - Amiens Cathedral - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1981
7 - Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1981
8 - Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1981
9 - Palace and Park of Fontainebleau - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1981
10 - Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the 'Triumphal Arch' of Orange - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1981
11 - From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the Production of Open-pan Salt - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1982
12 - Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1983
13 - Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve - Natural, France-Europe and North America - 1983
14 - Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance in Nancy - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1983
15 - Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct) - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1985
16 - Strasbourg - Grande île - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1988
17 - Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau, Reims - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1991
18 - Paris, Banks of the Seine - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1991
19 - Bourges Cathedral - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1992
20 - Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1995
21 - Canal du Midi - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1996
22 - Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1997
23 - Pyrénées - Mont Perdu - Mixed, France-Europe and North America - 1997
24 - Historic Site of Lyons - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1998
25 - Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1998
26 - Belfries of Belgium and France 8 - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1999
27 - Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 1999
28 - The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes 9 - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 2000
29 - Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 2001
30 - Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 2005
31 - Bordeaux, Port of the Moon - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 2007
32 - Fortifications of Vauban - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 2008
33 - Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems - Natural, France-Europe and North America - 2008
34 - Episcopal City of Albi - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 2010
35 - Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island - Natural, France-Europe and North America - 2010
36 - Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 2011
37 - The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 2011
38 - Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 2012
39 - Decorated Cave of Pont d'Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, Ardèche - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 2014
40 - Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 2015
41 - Climats, terroirs of Burgundy - Cultural, France-Europe and North America - 2015

Total sites found: 41