Couvent des Ursulines (ancien) · Photo: Véronique PAGNIER · CC BY-SA 3.015 historic monuments, 5 classé
For every 10,000 residents Bollène counts 11 monuments, more per resident than 86% of compared French towns, against 2.5 in the median compared French town. We have photos of 12 of Bollène’s monuments. The oldest monuments in Bollène date from the 11th century.
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Bollène in 12 photos
Nearly every classé monument, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Église Saint-MartinClassé
Hôtel d'AlauzierClassé
Maison dite Maison CardinaleClassé
Tour de Bauzon et chapelle Saint-Blaise (ensemble)Classé
Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Pont ou de Bonne-AventureInscrit+7See 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 Bollène’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. 1 monument has no point on the map.
5 classé monuments in Bollène
Classé is France’s highest protection for a building, held by about a third of the monuments on the list. 2 of the 5 are protected in part only (a façade, a roof, a room). Each card opens the monument’s page.
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Classé10 inscrit monuments in Bollène
Inscrit is the second level of protection: the building is worth keeping, and any work on it must be declared.
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InscritChurches and religious buildings are the largest group in Bollène
Each monument under the main domain Mérimée gives it.
Religious buildings: 7 of 15 monuments (47%).
Mérimée files each monument under one main domain: a château with its chapel counts once. 1 has no domain on the list.
How old Bollène’s monuments are
Each monument once, by the oldest part the list dates.
5 of 10 dated monuments have parts from before 1500. The oldest dated: Chapelle Saint-Ariès (11th c.). 5 monuments have no date on the list.
Bollène’s list has grown since 1909
Monuments by the year they were first protected.
First protected, in 1909: Église Saint-Martin. 2 were protected in 1970 alone. 2 have been added since 2011.
6 people born in Bollène before 1900
Their lives on one line.
Everyone born in Bollène Birthplaces from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia.
Bollène has the 6th most monuments of 41 towns its size
Compared French towns of 13,700 to 14,400 residents, by historic monuments.
The median town of these has 2. 15 of the 41 have none.
Historic monuments in the towns around Bollène
| Town | Residents | Monuments | Classé | Protected area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bollène | 14,024 | 15 | 5 | — |
| Lapalud | 3,853 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Mondragon | 3,833 | 2 | 1 | — |
| Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux Drôme | 8,981 | 7 | 2 | Yes |
| Pont-Saint-Esprit Gard | 10,958 | 18 | 4 | Yes |
| Mornas | 2,569 | 3 | 1 | — |
| Pierrelatte Drôme | 13,756 | 1 | 0 | — |
Bollène in brief
Chapelle Saint-Ariès, from the 11th century, is the oldest monument in Bollène. All told, the list holds 15 historic monuments, 5 of them classé. For its size, it has more historic monuments than 86% of compared French towns. Only 5 of the 41 towns nearest its size have more historic monuments.
Most of its dated monuments come from the Middle Ages: 5 of 10. Usine-barrage André-Blondel carries the Architecture contemporaine remarquable label. Marie Louis Henry de Granet-Lacroix de Chabrières (1807), Louis François de Faucher (1715) and Jean-François Dours (1739) are among the 6 people born here before 1900. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: 8.8% 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 Bollène
How many historic monuments are there in Bollène?
The Culture ministry lists 15 historic monuments in Bollène: 5 classé and 10 inscrit.
Which monuments in Bollène are classé?
5, among them Église Saint-Martin, Maison dite Maison Cardinale, Couvent des Ursulines (ancien), Hôtel d'Alauzier and Tour de Bauzon et chapelle Saint-Blaise (ensemble).
How old are the monuments of Bollène?
The oldest parts of its listed monuments date from the 11th century.
When were monuments in Bollène first protected?
The first in 1909, the latest in 2016.
How old are the homes in Bollène?
8.8% 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 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.