Ruines du château de Suscinio · Photo: Pline · CC BY-SA 3.012 historic monuments, the oldest from prehistory
The Culture ministry lists 12 historic monuments in Sarzeau: 4 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 8 inscrit (the second level). That’s 13 for every 10,000 residents, more per resident than 90% of compared French towns; the median compared French town has 2.5. We have photos of 8 of them.
median compared town 2.5
Sarzeau in 8 photos
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Dolmen à galerie dit Er-RohClassé
Château de KérampoulInscrit
Villa CoëtihuelInscrit
Menhir, dit Fuseau ou Quenouille de JeannetteInscrit
Maison Renaissance située sur la place au Sud de l'égliseInscrit+3See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its license; names open the monument’s page.
How old Sarzeau’s monuments are
Each monument once, by the oldest part the list dates.
7 of 12 dated monuments have parts from before 1500. The oldest dated: Dolmen à galerie dit Er-Roh (Prehistory).
Where Sarzeau’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.
4 classé monuments in Sarzeau
Classé is France’s highest protection for a building, held by about a third of the monuments on the list. 1 of the 4 is protected in part only (a façade, a roof, a room). Each card opens the monument’s page.
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Classé8 inscrit monuments in Sarzeau
Inscrit is the second level of protection: the building is worth keeping, and any work on it must be declared.
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InscritMost of Sarzeau’s monuments are houses and homes
Each monument under the main domain Mérimée gives it.
Houses & homes: 6 of 12 monuments (50%).
Mérimée files each monument under one main domain: a château with its chapel counts once.
3 of Sarzeau’s monuments were protected in 2023
Monuments by the year they were first protected.
First protected, in 1840: Ruines du château de Suscinio. That was France’s first list of monuments historiques, drawn up in Prosper Mérimée’s time as inspector. 3 were protected in 2023 alone. 3 have been added since 2011.
Sarzeau has the 2nd most monuments of 41 towns its size
Compared French towns of 9,100 to 9,400 residents, by historic monuments.
The median town of these has 2. 12 of the 41 have none.
Historic monuments in the towns around Sarzeau
Sarzeau in brief
Sarzeau’s oldest monument, Dolmen à galerie dit Er-Roh, dates from prehistory. All told, the list holds 12 historic monuments, 4 of them classé, including Ruines du château de Suscinio. For its size, it has more historic monuments than 90% of compared French towns. Only one of the 41 towns nearest its size has more historic monuments.
Most entries on the list, 50%, are houses and homes. Of the 12 with a date, 6 come from prehistory or Antiquity. Villa Coëtihuel carries the Architecture contemporaine remarquable label. Beyond that, Marie Le Franc (1879) and Claude Cillart de Kerampoul (1686) were born here before 1900; and 6.4% 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 Sarzeau
How many historic monuments are there in Sarzeau?
The Culture ministry lists 12 historic monuments in Sarzeau: 4 classé and 8 inscrit.
Which monuments in Sarzeau are classé?
4, among them Dolmen à galerie dit Er-Roh, Dolmen à galerie dit Er-Roh, Ruines du château de Suscinio and Château de Kerlevénan.
How old are the monuments of Sarzeau?
The oldest parts of its listed monuments date from prehistory.
When were monuments in Sarzeau first protected?
The first in 1840, the latest in 2023.
How old are the homes in Sarzeau?
6.4% 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).
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