ClasséDolmen · protected 1931Allée couverte de la Pointe-de-GuérittePhoto: Nweider · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Menhir de la pointe d'Er-Limouzen · Photo: Juliofsanguino · CC BY-SA 4.017historic monuments
History of Quiberon · Monuments historiques
17 historic monuments, more per resident than 98% of compared French towns
The Culture ministry lists 17 historic monuments in Quiberon: 16 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level). The oldest date from prehistory. We have photos of 9 of them.
Monuments historiques
17
35 per 10,000 residents
median compared town 2.5
median compared town 2.5
Classé
16
the highest protection
Inscrit
1
the second level
Oldest part
Prehistory
of any listed monument
Homes before 1919
5.7%
median compared town 7.4%
In pictures
Quiberon in 9 photos
Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Allée couverte de la Pointe-de-GuéritteClassé
Dolmen du ConguelClassé
Premier menhir de Mané-MeurClassé
Deuxième menhir de Mané-MeurClassé
Deux menhirs couchésClassé+4See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its license; names open the monument’s page.
Towns its size
Quiberon has the most monuments of 41 towns its size
Compared French towns of 4,800 to 4,900 residents, by historic monuments.
Quiberon17
#1 of 41for monuments per resident (35 per 10,000). Most per resident: Quiberon, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines and La Côte-Saint-André.
The median town of these has 2. 13 of the 41 have none.
Map
Where Quiberon’s monuments stand
Every monument with a point on the ministry’s list; the larger, darker dots are classé.
ClasséInscritWithin 400 m of Menhir couché
6 of 16classé monuments stand within 400 m of Menhir couché, with 6 of the town’s 17 monuments.
Tap a dot to open the monument’s page: its record, photo and the monuments around it.
17 monuments by protection
16 Classé1 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.
Classé
16 classé monuments in Quiberon
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.
ClasséStanding stone · protected 1931Deux menhirs couchésPhoto: Liberliger · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséStanding stone · protected 1927Deuxième menhir de Mané-MeurPhoto: Wikicaro · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Classé
ClasséStanding stone · protected 1931Menhir de la pointe d'Er-LimouzenPhoto: Juliofsanguino · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséStanding stone · protected 1933Menhir de la Pointe-de-GuérittePhoto: Nweider · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséStanding stone · protected 1889Premier menhir de Mané-MeurPhoto: Wikicaro · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséStanding stone · protected 1931Menhir couché
Funerary monument · protected 1931Sépulture circulaire de la pointe d'Er-Limouzen
Burial mound · protected 1933Tertre-tumulus
Monument · protected 1920Roche naturelle de Roch-Priol
Funerary monument · protected 1931Roches à cupules de la Pointe-de-Guéritte
Funerary monument · protected 1930Roches granitiques à cupules
Burial mound · protected 1931Tertre tumulaire
Burial mound · protected 1931Tumulus
Inscrit
One inscrit monument in Quiberon
Inscrit is the second level of protection: the building is worth keeping, and any work on it must be declared.
InscritStanding stone · protected 1978Menhir de Goulvarc'hPhoto: Liberliger · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
What’s protected
Most of Quiberon’s monuments are tombs and cemeteries
Each monument under the main domain Mérimée gives it.
Tombs & cemeteries15
Tombs & cemeteries: 15 of 17 monuments (88%).
Mérimée files each monument under one main domain: a château with its chapel counts once. 2 have no domain on the list.
When protected
8 of Quiberon’s monuments were protected in 1931
Monuments by the year they were first protected.
1931 · 8
18801900192019401960198020002020
First protected, in 1889: Premier menhir de Mané-Meur. 8 were protected in 1931 alone. None has been added since 2011.
Neighbors
Historic monuments in the towns around Quiberon
In brief
Quiberon in brief
Allée couverte de la Pointe-de-Guéritte, from prehistory, is the oldest monument in Quiberon. In all there are 17 historic monuments, 16 of them classé, including Menhir de la pointe d'Er-Limouzen. Per resident, it has more historic monuments than 98% of compared French towns. No town its size has more historic monuments: it leads the 41 nearest in population.
Its classé monuments cluster together: 6 of them stand within 400 m of Menhir couché. Most entries on the list, 88%, are tombs and cemeteries. The rest is about typical: most dated ones come from prehistory or Antiquity; and 5.7% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 7.4% in the median compared French town.
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 Quiberon
How many historic monuments are there in Quiberon?
The Culture ministry lists 17 historic monuments in Quiberon: 16 classé and 1 inscrit.
Which monuments in Quiberon are classé?
16, among them Allée couverte de la Pointe-de-Guéritte, Deux menhirs couchés, Deuxième menhir de Mané-Meur, Dolmen du Conguel, Menhir couché and Menhir de la pointe d'Er-Limouzen.
How old are the monuments of Quiberon?
The oldest parts of its listed monuments date from prehistory.
When were monuments in Quiberon first protected?
The first in 1889, the latest in 1978.
How old are the homes in Quiberon?
5.7% 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 November 4, 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.