A new campaign is launched. The Heritage Foundation has unveiled the list of 18 sites chosen for the year 2023 of the Heritage Loto in order to restore them. As announced on Thursday March 16 by the Heritage Mission, new places have been selected for this sixth edition led by Stéphane Bern.
“For this 6th edition, these 18 new emblematic sites once again reflect the diversity of our precious heritage: whether agricultural or vernacular, industrial or worker, consecrated or desacralized religious, archaeological, castle or illustrious house… the heritage is everyone’s business”, indicates the famous host in a message shared on the website of the Ministry of Culture. A project to safeguard national heritage that mobilizes more than 1,000 volunteers who criss-cross metropolitan France and overseas to meet citizens.
“Behind each site saved”, according to Minister Rima Abdul Malak, “there are committed inhabitants who fight to revive their heritage, volunteers who follow the construction sites, local businesses and craftsmen who carry the passion for heritage on a daily basis and the know-how of our regions”.
Since the first edition in 2018, the Heritage Loto has saved “762 sites in danger identified by the volunteers of the Heritage Foundation”, we learn from the official account on Twitter. In detail, more than 60% of the sites have been saved, of which 230 sites have been completed and 240 in the process of being restored.
This year, there is still a wide selection of monuments, buildings and sites in danger. Like a marine biology institute in the Var, an old sugar factory in Guadeloupe, a stained glass workshop in Chartres or pottery in the Bas-Rhin. Here they are in pictures in our slideshow.
