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Menhir dit Pierre Percée ou des ArabesMenhir dit Pierre Percée ou des Arabes · Photo: JOUBERT Alain · Public domain
1historic monument
History of Draché · Monuments historiques

1 historic monument, the oldest from prehistory

Protection for Draché’s monument dates from 1911. The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Draché, all of them classé, France’s highest heritage protection.

Monuments historiques
1
Classé
1
the highest protection
Inscrit
0
the second level
Oldest part
Prehistory
of any listed monument
Homes before 1919
24%
median compared town 7.4%
Map

Where Draché’s monuments stand

Every monument with a point on the ministry’s list; the larger, darker dots are classé.

Menhir dit Pierre Percée ou des Arabes · Classé · Prehistory
Classé

Tap a dot to open the monument’s page: its record, photo and the monuments around it.

1 monuments by protection
1 Classé

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.

Classé

One classé monument in Draché

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.

Age of homes

24% of homes in Draché were built before 1919

Main homes by when they were finished, beside the median compared French town (the tick).

24%
Before 1919
10%
1919–45
7.2%
1946–70
34%
1971–90
13%
1991–2005
11%
2006 on
DrachéMedian compared French town

24% 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 (34%).

INSEE, census 2023: main homes (résidences principales) only; second homes and empty homes aren’t dated.

Neighbors

Historic monuments in the towns around Draché

TownResidentsMonumentsClasséProtected area
Draché69811—
Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine4,09270—
Descartes3,36953—
Dangé-Saint-Romain Vienne2,95900—
Sorigny2,93800—
Saint-Branchs2,63700—
Artannes-sur-Indre2,79520—
In brief

Draché in brief

The record in Draché starts with Menhir dit Pierre Percée ou des Arabes, which dates from prehistory. All told, the list holds 1 historic monument, 1 of them classé, including Menhir dit Pierre Percée ou des Arabes. Its housing is old: 24% of homes date from before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town. Beyond that, Georges Poivilliers (1892) was born here before 1900; and its only entry went on the list in 1911.

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 Draché

How many historic monuments are there in Draché?

The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Draché: 1 classé and 0 inscrit.

Which monuments in Draché are classé?

One: Menhir dit Pierre Percée ou des Arabes.

How old are the homes in Draché?

24% 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 8, 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.