Église Saint-Georges · Photo: Remi Mathis · CC BY-SA 3.016 historic monuments, 1 classé
Vesoul has 11 monuments for every 10,000 residents, more per resident than 86% of compared French towns; the median compared French town has 2.5. Vesoul’s oldest monuments date from the 15th century. 15 of Vesoul’s monuments are in our photos.
median compared town 2.5
Vesoul in 15 photos
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Pavillon en boisInscrit
Hôtel dit de Simon RenardInscrit
Hôtel Lyautey de GenevreuilleInscrit
Collège de MarteroyInscrit
Couvent des Ursulines (ancien)Inscrit+10See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its license; names open the monument’s page.
Where Vesoul’s monuments stand
Every monument with a point on the ministry’s list; the larger, darker dots are classé.
Tap a dot to open the monument’s page: its record, photo and the monuments around it.
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.
One classé monument in Vesoul
Classé is France’s highest protection for a building, held by about a third of the monuments on the list. Each card opens the monument’s page.
Classé15 inscrit monuments in Vesoul
Inscrit is the second level of protection: the building is worth keeping, and any work on it must be declared.
All 15, A to Z
1 more, named only by its kind
One more is named in the list only by its kind: 1 house (maison), most from the 16th century. The one with an address is in the list above, by it.
Most of Vesoul’s monuments are houses and homes
Each monument under the main domain Mérimée gives it.
Houses & homes: 9 of 16 monuments (56%). 5 are religious buildings, 1 of them classé.
Mérimée files each monument under one main domain: a château with its chapel counts once.
How old Vesoul’s monuments are
Each monument once, by the oldest part the list dates.
2 of 15 dated monuments have parts from before 1500. The oldest dated: Hôtel Baressols (15th & 16th c.). 1 monument has no date on the list.
Vesoul’s list has grown since 1934
Monuments by the year they were first protected.
The first was protected in 1934. 2 were protected in 1996 alone. 3 have been added since 2011.
44 people born in Vesoul before 1900
The 20 best known on the line, and eight of them below.
Everyone born in Vesoul Birthplaces from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia.
Vesoul has the 7th most monuments of 41 towns its size
Compared French towns of 14,600 to 15,500 residents, by historic monuments.
The median town of these has 4. 5 of the 41 have none.
Historic monuments in the towns around Vesoul
| Town | Residents | Monuments | Classé | Protected area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vesoul | 15,078 | 16 | 1 | — |
| Échenoz-la-Méline | 3,158 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Port-sur-Saône | 2,949 | 3 | 0 | — |
| Lure | 7,877 | 3 | 0 | — |
| Luxeuil-les-Bains | 6,663 | 17 | 8 | — |
Vesoul in brief
Measured per resident, Vesoul has more historic monuments than 86% of compared French towns. In all there are 16 historic monuments, 1 of them classé, including Église Saint-Georges. Only 6 of the 41 towns nearest its size have more historic monuments. Of the whole list, 56% are houses and homes.
Of the 15 with a date, 9 come from the 16th to 18th centuries. The oldest is Hôtel Baressols, from the 15th century. Of the 44 people born here before 1900, the best known include Simon Renard (1513), Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791) and Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824). The rest is about typical: 9.2% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 7.4% in the median compared French town.
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 Vesoul
How many historic monuments are there in Vesoul?
The Culture ministry lists 16 historic monuments in Vesoul: 1 classé and 15 inscrit.
Which monuments in Vesoul are classé?
One: Église Saint-Georges.
How old are the monuments of Vesoul?
The oldest parts of its listed monuments date from the 15th century.
When were monuments in Vesoul first protected?
The first in 1934, the latest in 2024.
How old are the homes in Vesoul?
9.2% 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) · Wikidata and Wikipedia (people born here) · 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 November 9, 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.