Champagne hillsides, houses and cellars

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Champagne hillsides, houses and cellars
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List
Avenue de Champagne in Épernay
Type	Cultural
Criteria	iii, iv, vi
Reference	1465
UNESCO region	Europe and North America
Inscription history
Inscription	2015 (39nd Session)

Champagne hillsides, houses and cellars is the name given to several sites in the Champagne region of France inscribed to the list of World Heritage Sites in 2015 for their historical ties to the production and sale of champagne. Those sites include:

Historic vineyards of Hautvillers, Aÿ and Mareuil-sur-Aÿ
Saint-Nicaise Hill in Reims
Avenue de Champagne and Fort Chabrol in Épernay

World Heritage Sites in France

Île-de-France	Palace and Park of Versailles Fontainebleau Palace and Park Paris: Banks of the Seine Provins

Parisian basin	Amiens Cathedral Belfries of Belgium and France¹ Bourges Cathedral Champagne hillsides, houses and cellars Chartres Cathedral Climats and terroirs of Burgundy Reims: Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Abbey of Saint-Remi, Palace of Tau Abbey of Fontenay Le Havre Vézelay Church and hill

Nord-Pas-de-Calais	Belfries of Belgium and France¹

East	Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains and Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans Nancy: Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance Strasbourg: Grande Île Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps³

West	Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe Mont-Saint-Michel and its bay

South West	Episcopal city, Albi Port of the Moon, Bordeaux Prehistoric sites and decorated caves of the Vézère Valley Pyrénées: Mont Perdu² Saint-Émilion

Centre East	Chauvet Cave Lyon

Mediterranean	Roman and Romanesque monuments, Arles Carcassonne citadel Gulf of Porto: Calanches de Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble, Avignon Bridge Pont du Gard Orange: Roman Theatre and environs, Triumphal Arch

Multiple regions	Canal du Midi Fortifications of Vauban Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes-sur-Loire Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France

Overseas departments and territories	Lagoons of New Caledonia Pitons, cirques and remparts of Réunion

¹Shared locally with other region/s and with Belgium ²Shared with Spain ³Shared with Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland

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