ClasséBuilding · protected 1921Immeuble dit Maison Jean EscoffierPhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Immeuble dit Maison Jean Escoffier · Photo: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.081historic monuments
History of Pérouges · Monuments historiques
81 historic monuments, 55 classé
The oldest monuments in Pérouges date from the 14th century. Pérouges has 584 monuments for every 10,000 residents; the median compared French town has 2.5. We have photos of 60 of Pérouges’s monuments.
Monuments historiques
81
584 per 10,000 residents
median compared town 2.5
median compared town 2.5
Classé
55
the highest protection
Inscrit
26
the second level
Oldest part
14th c.
of any listed monument
Homes before 1919
14%
median compared town 7.4%
In pictures
Pérouges in 60 photos
Nearly every classé monument, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Maisons jumelées : maison Magnin et maison GaillardClassé
Maison SalomonClassé
Maison Thevenet-FalconnetClassé
Maison Valensot ou VernayClassé
Immeuble dit Hostellerie du Vieux PérougesClassé+55See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its license; names open the monument’s page.
Map
Where Pérouges’ monuments stand
Every monument with a point on the ministry’s list; the larger, darker dots are classé.
ClasséInscritWithin 400 m of Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine
51 of 55classé monuments stand within 400 m of Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, with 74 of the town’s 81 monuments.
Tap a dot to open the monument’s page: its record, photo and the monuments around it.
81 monuments by protection
55 Classé26 Inscrit
Classé is the higher protection: any work on the building needs the State’s permission. Work on an inscrit building must be declared to the State in advance. Around both, building work in sight of the monument (usually within 500 m) needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
Points as the ministry gives them: a monument spread over several plots has one point. 4 monuments have no point on the map.
Classé
55 classé monuments in Pérouges
Classé is France’s highest protection for a building, held by about a third of the monuments on the list. 21 of the 55 are protected in part only (a façade, a roof, a room). Each card opens the monument’s page.
ClasséHouse · protected 1930Maison BachePart of the building is protectedPhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséHouse · protected 1912Maison contiguë à la porte d'En-HautPhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséPublic building · protected 1921Maison des DîmesPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséHouse · protected 1930Maison DevignePart of the building is protectedPhoto: BUFO88 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséHouse · protected 1921Maison Gerlier et remparts qui en dépendentPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Paul Gillin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
House · protected 1921Maison GrezinPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Paul Gillin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Classé
ClasséHouse · protected 1930Maison Mandon (restes)Part of the building is protectedPhoto: BUFO88 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséHouse · protected 1921Maison Martinet et GrassinPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséHouse · protected 1921Maison PerrinPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Paul Gillin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Classé
ClasséHouse · protected 1921Maison PlantierPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Classé
ClasséHouse · protected 1921Maison RuivetPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Classé
Classé
Classé
ClasséHouse · protected 1912Maison sise face à la porte d'En-HautPhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséHouse · protected 1924Maison ThibautPart of the building is protectedPhoto: BUFO88 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséHouse · protected 1929Maison Valensot ou VernayPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
House · protected 1921Maisons et remparts qui en dépendentPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Paul Gillin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
House · protected 1921Maisons et remparts qui en dépendentPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Paul Gillin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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ClasséHouse · protected 1937Maisons JourdanPart of the building is protectedPhoto: BUFO88 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséHouse · protected 1921Maisons jumelées : maison Magnin et maison GaillardPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséTown gate · protected 1912Porte du mur d'enceinte dite porte d'En-Haut et substructions de la barbacanePhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Town walls · protected 1921Rempart attenant à des immeublesPhoto: Paul Gillin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Town walls · protected 1921Rempart attenant à un immeublePhoto: Paul Gillin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Town walls · protected 1921Rempart attenant à un immeublePhoto: Paul Gillin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Town walls · protected 1921Rempart attenant à un immeublePhoto: Paul Gillin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Town walls · protected 1921Rempart attenant à un immeuble dit maison MoschardPhoto: Paul Gillin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséChurch · protected 1912Église Sainte-Marie-MadeleinePhoto: Arnaud 25 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséCommercial building · protected 1941Hostellerie du Vieux PérougesPhoto: BUFO88 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséBuilding · protected 1921Immeuble dit Hostellerie du Vieux PérougesPhoto: jsamwrites · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséBuilding · protected 1921Immeuble dit Maison du PrincePhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséBuilding · protected 1941Immeubles dits Maison FalconnetPhoto: BUFO88 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Classé
Classé
ClasséHouse · protected 1937Maison TacaniPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Classé
Classé
ClasséHouse · protected 1921Maison TheveninPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Town walls · protected 1921Rempart attenant à l'immeuble dit maison du sergent de justicePhoto: Paul Gillin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Town walls · protected 1924Rempart attenant à la maison NicolasPhoto: Paul Gillin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Town walls · protected 1921Rempart attenant à un immeublePhoto: Paul Gillin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Town walls · protected 1921Rempart attenant à un immeublePhoto: Paul Gillin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Town walls · protected 1921Rempart attenant à un immeublePhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséHome · protected 1937Ecuries, rue des RondesPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséHouse · protected 1921Maison, rue du PrincePart of the building is protectedPhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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Classé
ClasséBuilding · protected 1921Immeuble, rue des ContrefortsPhoto: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
House · protected 1921Maison, rue des RondesPart of the building is protected
Inscrit
26 inscrit monuments in Pérouges
Inscrit is the second level of protection: the building is worth keeping, and any work on it must be declared.
All 22, A to Z
école de fillesEcurie GerlierEcurie SchlutzHôpital (ancien)Maison (restes)Maison dite du Cadran SolaireMaison du Petit-Saint-GeorgesMaison et rempartsMaison GagneuxMaison Guedon (ancienne)Maison JaninMaison RuyssenMaison ThibaultMaison ThimonMaison ValletMaison, place des TilleulsMaison, rue des RondesMaison, rue des RondesMaison, rue des RondesMaisons et remparts qui en dépendentPorte d'En-BasRemparts (restes)
8 more, named only by their kind
8 more are named in the list only by their kind: 7 houses (maisons) and 1 other, most from the 15th century. The 4 with an address are in the list above, by it.
15th c.7
16th c.1
What’s protected
Most of Pérouges’ monuments are houses and homes
Each monument under the main domain Mérimée gives it.
Houses & homes60
Military & fortified2
Farm buildings2
Religious buildings1
Public & civic1
Shops & trade1
Houses & homes: 60 of 81 monuments (74%). 1 is a religious building, 1 of them classé.
Mérimée files each monument under one main domain: a château with its chapel counts once. 14 have no domain on the list.
How old
How old Pérouges’ monuments are
Each monument once, by the oldest part the list dates.
Prehistory & Antiquity to the 4th c.0
Middle Ages 5th–15th c.62
16th to 18th century Renaissance to Revolution2
19th century 1801–19000
20th century and later since 19010
62 of 64 dated monuments have parts from before 1500. The oldest dated: Immeuble dit Maison Jean Escoffier (14th c.). 17 monuments have no date on the list.
When protected
29 of Pérouges’ monuments were protected in 1921
Monuments by the year they were first protected.
1921 · 291941 · 10
1900192019401960198020002020
First protected, in 1912: Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, Maison contiguë à la porte d'En-Haut and Maison sise face à la porte d'En-Haut. 29 were protected in 1921 alone. None has been added since 2011.
Age of homes
14% of homes in Pérouges were built before 1919
Main homes by when they were finished, beside the median compared French town (the tick).
14%
Before 1919
4.4%
1919–45
6.9%
1946–70
32%
1971–90
22%
1991–2005
21%
2006 on
PérougesMedian compared French town
14% of its main homes were built before 1919; the median compared French town has 7.4%. More of them were finished between 1971 and 1990 than in any other period (32%).
INSEE, census 2023: main homes (résidences principales) only; second homes and empty homes aren’t dated.
Neighbors
Historic monuments in the towns around Pérouges
| Town | Residents | Monuments | Classé | Protected area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pérouges | 1,387 | 81 | 55 | — |
| Meximieux | 8,247 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Villieu-Loyes-Mollon | 3,849 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Béligneux | 3,535 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Balan | 3,077 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Maurice-de-Gourdans | 2,903 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Dagneux | 4,778 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Pérouges in brief
The official list counts 81 historic monuments in Pérouges, 55 of them classé, including Immeuble dit Maison Jean Escoffier. Of its homes, 14% were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town. Its classé monuments cluster together: 51 of them stand within 400 m of Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine. In 2025 the Mission Patrimoine picked Maison sise face à la porte d'En-Haut as a monument in danger to save.
Most entries on the list, 74%, are houses and homes. Most of its dated monuments come from the Middle Ages: 62 of 64. The oldest, Immeuble dit Maison Jean Escoffier, dates from the 14th century.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Monuments historiques. France protects buildings at two levels. Classé, the higher (about a third of the list), means any work needs the State’s permission; inscrit means work must be declared to the State in advance. The Culture ministry’s Mérimée base lists every protected building, and this page counts them.
- Partly protected. Many entries protect part of a building only (its façades and roofs, a staircase, a painted room). Each counts as one monument, like a fully protected one.
- Where a monument is counted. In the commune named on its protection, moved to today’s commune where communes have since merged. A monument listed for several communes counts in each.
- Sites patrimoniaux remarquables. Since 2016 France’s protected historic areas (the former secteurs sauvegardés, ZPPAUP and AVAP) share one name. Inside one, building work follows the area’s plan and needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
- What isn’t here. Protected objects (furniture, organs, paintings), old buildings with no protection, UNESCO World Heritage listings and labels such as “Plus Beaux Villages de France” aren’t on this list, so this page doesn’t count them.
- No History Grade yet. Everything on this page is described, not graded: France’s History Grade isn’t built yet.
Questions about the history of Pérouges
How many historic monuments are there in Pérouges?
The Culture ministry lists 81 historic monuments in Pérouges: 55 classé and 26 inscrit.
Which monuments in Pérouges are classé?
55, among them Immeuble dit Maison Jean Escoffier, Maison Bache, Maison contiguë à la porte d'En-Haut, Maison des Dîmes, Maison Devigne and Maison Gerlier et remparts qui en dépendent.
How old are the monuments of Pérouges?
The oldest parts of its listed monuments date from the 14th century.
When were monuments in Pérouges first protected?
The first in 1912, the latest in 1965.
How old are the homes in Pérouges?
14% of its main homes were built before 1919 (median compared French town: 7.4%).
France has no History Grade yet: this page describes, it doesn’t grade.
Sources: Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée base on POP (immeubles protégés au titre des monuments historiques), October 2026 · Ministère de la Culture, sites patrimoniaux remarquables, October 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (main homes by build period) · Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (photos of the monuments, each with its own credit and license) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated October 30, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.