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).
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Ambohimanga | French garrison | |
| Cienfuegos | Settled by French immigrants from Bordeaux and Louisiana (1819) | |
| City of Luxembourg | Sun King Louis XIV besieged the city and annexed the duchy (Vauban then augmented the fortifications of the city of Luxembourg). After being regained by the Austrians, France annexed Luxembourg again under the 1st Republic and until the downfall of Napoleon. | |
| 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) | |
| Damascus | Bab-Kissan's church: One of Damascus eastern wall's doors. the French built a church there in 1934. | |
| Ferrara | Joannon de Saint Laurent designed the Chiesa della Natività di Maria Santissima in Mesola. | |
| First Coffee Plantations | By French plantation owners | |
| Grand Pré | French colonization | |
| Grand-Bassam | During French colonial period | |
| 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. | |
| Kasbah of Algiers | former capital of French Algeria | |
| Kunta Kinteh Island | "Albreda, probably another Portuguese settlement, was rented to French traders in 1681. It became the location of the French comptoir in The Gambia. Albreda and San Domingo served as the main trading outlets of the Kingdom of Niumi, and were the westernmost terminus of the long-distance trade routes from the interior. At the demand of the English, the site was abandoned by the French in 1857, but they came back, seen in the remains of two French trading company buildings, Maurel Frères and CFAO" (AB ev) | |
| Lima | Casa Courret | |
| Luang Prabang | Significant French colonial influences on buildings in inscribed area - both administrative buildings and houses of french colonists | |
| Medina of Essaouira | the Medina of Essaouira was laid out by a French architect who had been profoundly influenced by the work of the military engineer Vauban at Saint Malo (AB ev) | |
| Medina of Tunis | City hall and many other adminstrative buildings | |
| Mystras | Guillaume II de Villehardouin | |
| Old City of Acre | Khan el-frange belonged to French merchants from 1535 to 1791 | |
| Old City of Jerusalem | St Anna church | |
| Panamá | Museo del Canal Interoceánico de Panamá is located in a building once owned by the French canal company "Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique"; French Embassy at the Plaza de Francia | |
| Potsdam | French Church in Potsdam | |
| Québec | Founded by Champlain in July 1608 "at the site of a long abandoned St Lawrence Iroquoian settlement called Stadacona." (Wiki) | |
| Rabat | Ville Nouvelle was built by architect and town planner Henri Prost and landscape designer Jean-Claude Forestier, at the time of the French Protectorate | |
| Residences of the Royal House of Savoy | Castello del Valentino: "The current structure is due to Princess Christine of France" | |
| Rio de Janeiro | Christ the Redeemer: sculpted by French artist Paul Landowsky. | |
| 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" | |
| Santiago de Compostela | The façade of the Pazo de Raxoi on the Praza do Obradoiro was designed by the French architect Charles Lemaur in the 18th century. | |
| St. Petersburg | Le Cavalier de bronze (Falconet) | |
| Statue of Liberty | Made by Frenchman Frédéric Bartholdi, and given by the people of France to the USA | |
| Susa | Shush Castle "located in the ruins of the ancient city of Susa . Constructed by French archaeologist Jean-Marie Jacques de Morgan in the late 1890s, as a secure base for archaeological exploration and excavation. The Castle is similar to medieval monuments in France. The structure was built by local craftsmen with bricks taken from two other archaeological sites, the Achaemenid Darius/Dariush castle and the Elamite Choqazanbil ziggurat. It is built atop a hill ("tappeh") which may contain other relics of past times. It is an example of the pre-scientific era of archaeology, when explorers mutilated or destroyed sites in the process of examining them. The former French government property was taken over by the Islamic Republic after the Iranian Revolution in 1979" . See - | |
| 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. | |
| Tomioka Silk Mill | "It was the architect Edmond Bastien (1839-1888), already employed to build Yokosuka Arsenal, another Franco-Japanese cooperation project, who drew up the plans and supervised the construction (1872)." (AB ev) | |
| Val d'Orcia | In 1118, construction of the new church of Sant'Antimo Abbey began, under the guidance of Abbot Guidone. The most important point of reference for the project of the new church was the great Benedictine abbey of Cluny. The abbot requested the intervention of French architects to design the new building, which was partly inspired by the Benedictine church of Vignory from 1050. | |
| Valletta | Jean Parisot de Valette - The foundation stone of Valletta was laid by Grandmaster La Valette in the year 1566 (wiki) | |
| Vienna | French Embassy (it is an important historical building built by the French) |
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