19 historic monuments and a protected historic area since 2008

Cimetière des RécolletsClasséChemin de croix dit du Grand VoyageClasséCouvent de la Visitation (ancien)InscritHôtel Thomé (ancien)InscritHôtel de ClérieuInscrit+12See all photos

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A site patrimonial remarquable protects a whole area rather than one building: inside it, building work follows the area’s own plan and needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.

The list gives no boundaries, so the map can’t show the area.

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. 8 monuments have no point on the map.

6 more, named only by their kind

6 more are named in the list only by their kind: 4 houses (maisons) and 2 buildings (immeubles), most from the 17th century. The 6 with an address are in the list above, by it.

See all 19 on the map

First protected, in 1840: Église Saint-Barnard, ancienne collégiale. That was France’s first list of monuments historiques, drawn up in Prosper Mérimée’s time as inspector. 6 were protected in 1981 alone. 3 have been added since 2011.

Everyone born in Romans-sur-Isère Birthplaces from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia.

Hôtel de Clérieu, from the 12th century, is the oldest monument in Romans-sur-Isère. All told, the list holds 19 historic monuments, 4 of them classé, including Église Saint-Barnard, ancienne collégiale. Part of it has been a site patrimonial remarquable since 2008. Of the whole list, 58% are houses and homes.

Of the 17 with a date, 10 come from the 16th to 18th centuries. Église Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes carries the Architecture contemporaine remarquable label. Thomas Arthur de Lally-Tollendal (1702), Louis André Bon (1758) and François Le Blanc (1647) are among the 9 people born here before 1900. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has 19 historic monuments, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 6); per resident it sits near the middle of compared French towns; and 7.5% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 7.4% in the median compared French town.