The Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Bordeaux is a natural history museum in Bordeaux, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It is controlled by the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research and supported by the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of Aquitaine.
MO.CO. is a contemporary art institution in Montpellier. It was established as a public cultural cooperation establishment and operates as a multi-site structure with educational and exhibition functions.
The Musée départemental de l'Arles antique is an archaeological museum complex in Arles, opened in 1995. It is housed in a modern building designed by Henri Ciriani on the peninsula where the ancient Roman circus once stood.
Église Saint-Ferréol les Augustins is a church building in the 7th arrondissement of Marseille, at quai des Belges near rue du Beausset, rue de la reine Élisabeth, and rue des Augustins. Since 1965, it has been entrusted to the Compagnie de Jésus by the archbishop of Marseille.
Auditorium Maurice-Ravel is a performing arts building in Lyon, in the Part-Dieu district on Place Charles-de-Gaulle. Designed by Delfante and Pottier, it serves as the residence hall of the Orchestre national de Lyon.
Notre-Dame-de-Liesse is a French Catholic church in Annecy, Haute-Savoie. It is one of the former collegiate churches of the diocese of Geneva and occupies a site with a long religious history.
Domaine de Grammont is a château and former Grandmont priory on the east side of Montpellier, near the Lez and the boundary with Saint-Aunès. It later became a viticultural property and, since the 1980s, a place for spectacles and sports.
Rockstore is a venue in the center of Montpellier occupying a 19th-century building with a long religious and civic history. It has served as a Franciscan convent, Protestant temple, cinema, garage, and concert hall.
Théâtre Jean-Deschamps is an open-air theater inside the medieval city of Carcassonne, in Aude, France. It has 3,097 seats and a removable translucent roof, and it is used for a summer multidisciplinary festival.
Grand Bazar de Lyon was an ancient department store located at 31, rue de la République in Lyon’s Cordeliers district. Founded in 1856 as À la ville de Lyon, it later became known as the Grand Bazar and was demolished in 2005.
The Roman amphitheatre of Purpan-Ancely is an archaeological site in west Toulouse that preserves the ruins of a Roman amphitheatre. Built in the middle of the 1st century, it is one of the few practically intact Roman buildings in the city.
The Musée national de l'Éducation is a national museum formed from educational collections that began in Paris under Jules Ferry and were later united in Rouen. Its holdings include books, pedagogical materials, scientific materials, and old school objects.
Eglise Saint-Etienne (ancienne) is an ancient Catholic church in Dijon, noted as a heritage site and historical monument. It now houses the musée Rude, the bibliothèque Colette, and other cultural services, including the documentation center of the musée des Beaux-Arts.
Église Saint-Godard de Rouen is a church building in Rouen with medieval origins, later rebuilt after a fire in 1248 and expanded in the 15th and 16th centuries. It also preserves a history of stained glass restoration and monument listing.
École supérieure d'art et design Le Havre-Rouen is an art academy and public cultural cooperation establishment with roots in the 18th and 19th centuries. Its history includes foundations in Rouen and Le Havre, periods of closure and reopening, and several relocations.
The Saint-Trophime cloister is part of the former cathedral of Arles. It has an approximately rectangular plan and communicates with the choir by a staircase of twenty-five steps. Its galleries combine Roman and Gothic construction, reflecting work from the 12th to the 14th century.
Chapelle Saint-Joseph, inside Collège Saint-Paul on rue Colson in Lille’s Vauban district, was built by the Jesuits. In the late 2010s, it drew attention when demolition was threatened and heritage status was refused.
Église Saint-Pierre d'Arène is a church in Nice that began as a chapel founded in 1762 near the beach on the present Promenade des Anglais. It later became the current church building and now includes several chapels, a reliquary, and the Jorge François solidarity space.
The château de la Briantais is a 19th-century château in Saint-Malo, Brittany, built between 1850 and 1864 for Eugène Sully-Brunet. It stands in a 27-hectare English-style park overlooking the Rance estuary.
The Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Dijon, also known as the Conservatoire Jean-Philippe Rameau, is a regional conservatory in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. It is a state-approved artistic education establishment offering music, choreography, and dramatic art.
Temple des Chartrons is an ancient Protestant temple in Bordeaux’s Chartrons district. Built in 1835 in a neoclassical style, it was decommissioned in the 1970s and later reopened to the public for an exhibition.
Église Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation de Lyon is a Catholic church at Place de Paris in Lyon, facing Gare de Vaise. Rebuilt from 1953 to 1957 by architect Paul Erasme Koch, it is described as a visual signal in the city.
Place de la République is a square in Strasbourg developed from 1883 under German authorities as part of a major urban plan. It links the historic city and the new city and is marked by prestigious buildings, a central garden, and changing commemorative monuments.
Notre-Dame du Taur is a Catholic church on rue du Taur in central Toulouse, between Place du Capitole and the Basilica of Saint-Sernin. It is a principal monument of southern Gothic art and a historical monument.
Les casernes de la Part-Dieu are military barracks in Lyon’s 3rd arrondissement. Built on the former Part-Dieu redoubt site, they were designed for cavalry and artillery regiments and later housed successive cavalry units until the army left in 1962.
Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculée-Conception is a religious building on rue Malherbe in the Richebourg quarter of Nantes, France. Begun in 1470, it was renamed several times and listed in the supplementary inventory of historical monuments in 1991.
Place du Bouffay is a paved square in Nantes’ Bouffay district, the oldest area in the city center. It is part of the pedestrian zone and serves several streets. Formerly the main square of the medieval city, it was once the courtyard of the château du Bouffay.
Église Notre-Dame-des-Victoires in Angers is a church building that succeeded an earlier chapel dedicated to Notre-Dame. The chapel was enlarged in 1842, and in the 1880s a real church was constructed using a bequest from parishioner Marie Guitton, who died in 1883.
The Louis-Nucéra Library is the central municipal library of Nice, inaugurated as a library with regional vocation. It is named after writer Louis Nucéra and forms part of a complex beside the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Boulevard Marguerite-de-Rochechouart is a boulevard in Paris that forms a boundary between the 9th and 18th arrondissements. It extends from Boulevard de Magenta and Boulevard Barbès to Rue des Martyrs and is served by Pigalle and Anvers stations.
Saint William's Church, also called Wilhelmerkirche, is a Gothic church in Strasbourg at the junction of the Bateliers and Pêcheurs quays. It has hosted Lutheran worship since 1534 and is known for its skewed exterior and mixed interior.
The Jules Verne Museum is a museum in Nantes established in 1978 in a large bourgeois house built from 1872 to 1878 by architect Ernest-Marie Buron. It was opened by artist-painter Jean Bruneau and Luce Courville.
The Municipal Casino of Cannes was a casino commissioned by the Cannes municipal council and designed by architect Camille Mari. It was later modernized in 1930 and demolished in 1979, when it was replaced by a gaming establishment in the Palais des festivals et des congrès de Cannes.
Centre hospitalier Saint-Jean-de-Dieu is a psychiatric hospital in Lyon’s Moulin-à-vent neighborhood, founded in 1824 by Paul de Magallon and Xavier Tissot. It serves the south of the Rhône department and had 517 beds in 2008.
Parc Hamelin Oberthür is a public botanical garden in eastern Rennes, in the Thabor-Saint-Hélier-Alphonse Guérin neighborhood. Covering nearly three hectares, it contains unique botanical specimens and reflects its history as a former private garden.
The Church of the Cordeliers in Toulouse was the former church of the Cordeliers convent. Closed after a fire in 1798, it was used by the military administration until 1871 and later suffered another fire. Its ruins have been classified as a historic monument since 1862.
Rue des Capucins is a rectilinear, slightly inclined street in the quartier des pentes de la Croix-Rousse in Lyon, France. It continues rue du Sergent-Blandan, opens at place des Capucins, and ends at place Croix-Paquet. It lies within the UNESCO World Heritage area.
Place Jeanne d'Arc is a public square in Toulouse, south of the Matabiau and Les Chalets neighborhoods and on the boundary of Arnaud-Bernard and Capitole. It is a major transport interchange.
The Musée national Eugène-Delacroix is located in Eugène Delacroix’s last apartment and studio in Paris. Founded in the late 1920s, it first opened with an exhibition on Delacroix and his friends and became a national museum in 1971.
The Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg is an academic library located at Place de la République in the heart of Neustadt. It holds more than three million documents and is housed in a historic monument designed by August Hartel and Skjold Neckelmann.
Aquitaine Museum is a history museum in Bordeaux, located on cours Pasteur in the city centre. Its collections span prehistory, ancient and medieval periods, world cultures, Atlantic trade, and slavery.
Les Abattoirs is a cultural institution of modern and contemporary art in Toulouse. It brings together the city’s musée de France collections and regional contemporary art collections, and is housed in the preserved former municipal slaughterhouses.
Tour Silex 2 is an office tower in Lyon’s Part-Dieu business district. Completed in 2021, it was built against the former EDF tower and continues the Silex1 office building project. It is also known as tour newcleo.
Cathédrale des Saints-Traducteurs is an Armenian Apostolic church on avenue du Prado in Marseille’s VIII arrondissement. Also known as Sahak I° and Mesrop Mashtots, it was founded with a first stone laid in 1928 and consecrated in 1931.
Fort Saint-Jean is a fort in Lyon on the left bank of the Saône River. Originally called bastion Saint-Jean, it is part of the first belt of Lyon and occupies a site overlooking the river.
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne was founded in 1836 and is located in the old city presidium. Its collections include paintings from the 16th to the 20th century and an important archaeological collection.
Église Sainte-Croix is a church in Nantes and the parish church of the Bouffay district since 1138. Its architecture combines Renaissance forms, a Gothic choir, and later additions from the 16th to 19th centuries.
This temporary memorial site in Nice, France, commemorates the victims of the 14 July 2016 attack. It features a small stele topped with a fountain and a calligraphed heart in the Jardin de la Légion d'Honneur, with the names of the eighty-six victims inscribed.