Rural Religious Heritage: The Sauvegarde de l'Art Français launches a popular vote to save churches
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Saint-Pierre Church in Bordes-sur-Lez, Ariège. The association La Sauvegarde de l'art français is launching a major vote this fall to select a threatened rural religious building per region. Ldgfr Photos / STOCK ADOBE
On September 20, 2025, the Sauvegarde de l'Art Français association will launch a major popular vote, encouraging the French to vote – and donate – to save their favorite rural religious building, from among three "endangered" monuments selected in each region.
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I subscribeCan France, to safeguard its rich heritage and its 45,000 monuments protected as historic monuments, create a "French-style National Trust" on the model of this large British non-profit institution which brings together 5.7 million members? At the request of the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati , Marie Lavandier, president of the Centre des Monuments Nationaux (CMN), submitted a report containing around twenty proposals to her on July 3.
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