While this year we will celebrate the 110th anniversary of the Battle of the Marne, UNESCO has listed the Great Tomb in Villeroy as a world heritage site at the end of 2023.
Île-de-France has seven UNESCO classified sites.
Some constitute a single place or monument.
This is the case of the parks and castles of Versailles (1979) and Fontainebleau (1981), the Saint-Jacques tower in Paris (1998) or the medieval city of Provins (2001) and the Villa Savoye created by the architect Le Corbusier in Poissy (2016).
Other sites are integrated into a much larger whole, notably the banks of the Seine in Paris (1991) covering part of the capital and the Grande Tombe de Villeroy.
This is part of a set of 139 places of memory of the Great War, 43 of which are in Belgium, labeled last September.
The Seine-et-Marnaise military grave is the only monument located in Île-de-France in the series.
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