Introduction
:
France counts 38 000 monuments (including 30 % private),
40 000 classified buildings or registered on the
additional inventory, 13 000 listed monuments, 26
000 monuments registered within the repertory, in
addition to 600 towns of character including 135
indicated like "the most beautiful villages
of France", more than 100 Cities and a country
of Art and History.
France counted nearly 8 000 museums in 1994 including
more than 1 200 placed under control of the State
of which approximately one thousand are municipal.
the country counts also 34 national museums of which
the 2/ 3 are localised in Paris, as well as ecomuseums,
industrial museums and museums of companies. In
1988, 30 % of 15 year- old French and more went
to the museum during the last 12 months (against
27 % in 1973 and 30 % in 1981). Among the latter
16 % went to the museum 5 times and more during
the last twelve months (against 15 % in 1973 and
14 % in 1981).
Among the cultural places the religious sites are
classified clearly at the head with more than 15
million annual visitors on a total of almost 135
million in the places receiving more than 20 000
annual visitors. Immediately after comes the category
of "castles and buildings of modern architecture"
with more than 33 million visitors. Further behind
one finds the museums of Beautiful Arts (painting,
sculpture...) with 18 million visitors, then the
places of memory, historical museums and fortifications
with a little more than 4, 5 million visitors. With
regard to the sites described as "noncultural"
in a strict sense, one finds at the head the natural
sites, picturesque caves,and villages with nearly
54 million visitors. The parks with topics, the
zoos and aquariums add up more than 41 million visitors
for the parks with topics and 12 million visitors
for the zoos and the aquariums. The study of the
frequentation of the French cultural Inheritance
reveals the extreme focus on Paris and the Paris
area of the most attended places. Apart from the
Paris area six zones offer a strong density of sites
receiving more than 100000 annual visitors: the
Loire Valley between Orleans and Angers; Périgord;
Alsace; the triangle provenço - Languedocien;
Normandy of the beaches of the Unloading; the axis
Valence Lake Léman and to a lesser extent
the Eastern Alpes-Maritimes and Pyrenees
The best French
specialists let a large audience discover the national
archaeological inheritance, sometimes in the form
of monographs presenting isolated prehistoric or
ancient sites or agglomerations (Sanxay, Arles,
etc), sometimes in the form of routes describing
thematicaly the vestiges of a cultural era or an
area (caves of the valley of Vézère,
etc).
| Name
of the Site |
Details |
|
The archaeological garden
of Vaison the Roman |
|
|
Saint-Romain-in-Gal (the
Rhone) |
|
|
Archeological site of Alba-the-Roman |
|
|
BIBRACTE, ARCHEOLOGICAL
SITE AND HISTORY |
|
|
Argentomagus, Gallic oppidum
- Marcel Saint, Indre |
|
|
Gallo-Roman houses of Ambrussum
(Villetelle, Herault): |
|
|
Alésia (Coast of
gold) |
|
|
Mount Sainte-Odile (The
Low-Rhine) |
|
|
Mégalithes of Morbihan |
|
|
ERDEVEN |
|
|
MONTENEUF |
|
|
The archaeological crypt
of the square of Notre- Dame |
|
|
The Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc |
|
|
The Saint-Germain Abbey
of Auxerre |
|
