Built or owned by French

Cultural sites or significant parts thereof that were built or owned by France or French citizens(outside the current boundaries of France itself of course).

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Built or owned by French':

  • Archaeological Site of Mystras Guillaume II de Villehardouin
  • Cienfuegos Settled by French immigrants from Bordeaux and Louisiana (1819)
  • Corfu Controlled by France 1797-9, 1807-14. Liston Square - The Liston area is where you find the upmarket Cafés, built by the French and modelled on ‘Paris Rue de Rivoli’
  • Crac des Chevaliers Captured by Raymond IV of Toulouse and Tancred, Prince of Galilee (during the Crusades)
  • Island of Gorée French colony (1677-1960)
  • Island of Saint-Louis Saint-Louis was the capital of the French colony of Senegal from 1673 until independence in 1960.
  • Lima Casa Courret; link
  • Luang Prabang Significant French colonial influences on buildings in inscribed area - both administrative buildings and houses of french colonists
  • Old City of Jerusalem Tombs of the Kings (Jerusalem) previously housed a number of sarcophagus; they were moved to the Louvre by the French government, who inherited the site after the death of the previous French owner, who had herself purchased the land in 1874.
  • Panamá Viejo French Embassy at the Plaza de Francia
  • Québec Founded by Champlain in July 1608 "at the site of a long abandoned St Lawrence Iroquoian settlement called Stadacona." (Wiki)
  • Rome The French Embassy in Rome (and hence "French Territory" and therefore "owned" by them) is the Palazzo Farnese. This has been described as "The most imposing palace of the 16th Century"
  • São Luis In 1612 the French built a fort on the site of a "large village of the Tupinamba tribe" (Wiki) as part of the creation of the intended colony of France Équinoxiale. Less than 4 years later it was taken by the Portuguese.
  • Statue of Liberty Made by Frenchman Frédéric Bartholdi, and given by the people of France to the USA
  • Vienna French Embassy (it is an important historical building built by the French)