167 historic monuments and a protected historic area since 1995

Église Notre-Dame de RecouvranceClasséCentre hospitalier régional d'Orléans, dit Hôpital général d'OrléansClasséMaison dite de la ChancellerieClasséHôtel Tassin de MontcourClasséAncien grand cimetière ou Campo SantoClassé+153See 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. 7 monuments have no point on the map.

103 more, named only by their kind

103 more are named in the list only by their kind: 68 houses (maisons) and 35 buildings (immeubles). The 103 with an address are in the list above, by it.

See all 167 on the map

First protected, in 1840: Ancien hôtel de ville ou hôtel des Créneaux, ancien Musée des Beaux-Arts et Sciences naturelles, actuellement annexe du Conservatoire municipal de musique. That was France’s first list of monuments historiques, drawn up in Prosper Mérimée’s time as inspector. 45 were protected in 1928 alone. 12 have been added since 2011.

Everyone born in Orléans Birthplaces from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia.

For its size, Orléans has more historic monuments than 92% of compared French towns. All told, the list holds 167 historic monuments, 35 of them classé, including Ancien évêché, puis bibliothèque municipale, actuellement annexe de la médiathèque. Ancien hôtel de ville ou hôtel des Créneaux, ancien Musée des Beaux-Arts et Sciences naturelles, actuellement annexe du Conservatoire municipal de musique sits at the heart of it all, with 24 of the town’s classé monuments within 400 m. Only 4 of the 41 towns nearest its size have more historic monuments.

Parts of it lie in 2 sites patrimoniaux remarquables, the first protected in 1995. Of the whole list, 82% are houses and homes. Most of its dated monuments come from the 16th to 18th centuries: 55 of 78. The rest is about typical: 10% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 7.4% in the median compared French town.