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title="Ανθρακοφόρος λεκάνη του Νορ-Πα-ντε-Καλέ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ανθρακοφόρος λεκάνη του Νορ-Πα-ντε-Καλέ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassin_minier_du_Nord-Pas-de-Calais" title="Bassin minier du Nord-Pas-de-Calais – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Bassin minier du Nord-Pas-de-Calais" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conca_mineira_de_Norte-Paso_de_Calais" title="Conca mineira de Norte-Paso de Calais – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Conca mineira de Norte-Paso de Calais" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudarski_bazen_Nord-Pas_de_Calaisa" title="Rudarski bazen Nord-Pas de Calaisa – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Rudarski bazen Nord-Pas de Calaisa" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacino_minerario_del_Nord-Passo_di_Calais" title="Bacino minerario del Nord-Passo di Calais – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Bacino minerario del Nord-Passo di Calais" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a 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Basin is an area of great architectural and landscape diversity.</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;"><a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Sites_by_country" title="World Heritage Sites by country">Location</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nord-Pas-de-Calais" title="Nord-Pas-de-Calais">Nord-Pas-de-Calais</a>, <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;">Includes</th><td class="infobox-data">108 components</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;"><a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site#Selection_criteria" title="World Heritage Site">Criteria</a></th><td class="infobox-data category">Cultural: (ii), (iv), (vi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;">Reference</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1360">1360</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;">Inscription</th><td class="infobox-data">2012 (36th <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Committee" title="World Heritage Committee">Session</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;">Area</th><td class="infobox-data category">3,943 ha (9,740 acres)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;">Buffer zone</th><td class="infobox-data category">18,804 ha (46,470 acres)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em"><div style="line-height:1.2em;">Location of Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin in France</div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Nord-Pas-de-Calais" title="Nord-Pas-de-Calais">Nord-Pas-de-Calais</a> Mining Basin</b> is a mining basin in Northern <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> that stretches across the <a href="/wiki/Nord_(French_department)" title="Nord (French department)">Nord</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pas-de-Calais" title="Pas-de-Calais">Pas-de-Calais</a> departments. The region is famous for its long history of <a href="/wiki/Coal_extraction" class="mw-redirect" title="Coal extraction">coal extraction</a> and its testimony to a significant period in the history of industrialisation in Europe, and as a result it was inscribed on the <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a> <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_List" class="mw-redirect" title="World Heritage List">World Heritage List</a> in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-unesco_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unesco-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This area has been shaped by three centuries of <a href="/wiki/Coal_extraction" class="mw-redirect" title="Coal extraction">coal extraction</a> from the late 17th century through the 20th century, and demonstrates the evolution of coal mining techniques and worker conditions during that time.<sup id="cite_ref-unesco_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unesco-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Localisation_-_bassin_houiller_du_Nord-Pas-de-Calais.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Localisation_-_bassin_houiller_du_Nord-Pas-de-Calais.svg/330px-Localisation_-_bassin_houiller_du_Nord-Pas-de-Calais.svg.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="309" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Localisation_-_bassin_houiller_du_Nord-Pas-de-Calais.svg/500px-Localisation_-_bassin_houiller_du_Nord-Pas-de-Calais.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Localisation_-_bassin_houiller_du_Nord-Pas-de-Calais.svg/960px-Localisation_-_bassin_houiller_du_Nord-Pas-de-Calais.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1175" data-file-height="1101" /></a><figcaption>Nord-Pas de Calais mining basin location on French coal basins map.</figcaption></figure> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description_and_history">Description and history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nord-Pas_de_Calais_Mining_Basin&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Description and history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Nord-Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin is the western part of a <a href="/wiki/Coal" title="Coal">coal</a>-rich <a href="/wiki/Sedimentary_basin" title="Sedimentary basin">sedimentary basin</a> that continues across the Belgian border. In France, the basin covers 1,200 square kilometers, including the cities of <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9thune" title="Béthune">Béthune</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lens,_Pas-de-Calais" title="Lens, Pas-de-Calais">Lens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Douai" title="Douai">Douai</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Valenciennes" title="Valenciennes">Valenciennes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-icomos_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-icomos-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because of its long history of mining as the predominant industry, the region's architecture and landscape are unique.<sup id="cite_ref-unesco_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unesco-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although coal was first discovered in the basin in 1660 and the first pit was dug around 1692<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>, there was little coal extraction in the north of France until the mid 18th century.<sup id="cite_ref-icomos_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-icomos-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, with the increasing scarcity of timber and the collapse of the <a href="/wiki/First_French_Empire" title="First French Empire">First French Empire</a> in 1815, the coal pits near Valenciennes were expanded and mining companies began to form in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-icomos_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-icomos-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1840s, the western part of the basin was discovered. </p><p>Starting with the <a href="/wiki/Second_French_Empire" title="Second French Empire">Second French Empire</a> in the 1850s, the Nord-Pas-de-Calais mining basin became the most important mining basin in France. By 1880, the basin output nearly 8 million tonnes, and in the early 1900s accounted for a third of all coal mining in France.<sup id="cite_ref-icomos_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-icomos-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The famous novel <a href="/wiki/Germinal_(novel)" title="Germinal (novel)">Germinal</a>, written by <a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Zola" title="Émile Zola">Émile Zola</a> in 1885, describes the harsh conditions and working life of the miners during the expansion of coal extraction in the region. The <a href="/wiki/Courri%C3%A8res_mine_disaster" title="Courrières mine disaster">Courrières mine disaster</a> occurred in the region in 1906, leading to the death of 1,099 people.<sup id="cite_ref-icomos_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-icomos-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_I)" title="Western Front (World War I)">Western Front</a> bisected the region, and the eastern part of the mining basin was flooded.<sup id="cite_ref-icomos_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-icomos-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1930, however, the basin had a peak output of 35 million tonnes, employing about 75,000 workers and accounting for 60% of France's national coal production.<sup id="cite_ref-icomos_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-icomos-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, production began to decline, as many of the mines had started to deplete and conditions became more arduous. Strikes in 1968 and 1971 hastened the decline, and all of the mines in the area were essentially closed by the late 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-icomos_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-icomos-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="World_Heritage_Site">World Heritage Site</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nord-Pas_de_Calais_Mining_Basin&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: World Heritage Site"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The World Heritage Site comprises 108 components of the once-prolific mines in the area, preserving sites of mining operation including 17 mining pits, 21 <a href="/wiki/Headframe" title="Headframe">headgears</a> (used to support the lift systems over the mine), 51 <a href="/wiki/Spoil_tip" title="Spoil tip">slag heaps</a>, coal transport infrastructure (including mining cars and railway stations), workers’ estates, and <a href="/wiki/Company_town" title="Company town">mining villages</a>. 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Somain_-_Fosse_De_Sessevalle%2C_photochrome.jpg/330px-Somain_-_Fosse_De_Sessevalle%2C_photochrome.jpg" decoding="async" width="178" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Somain_-_Fosse_De_Sessevalle%2C_photochrome.jpg/500px-Somain_-_Fosse_De_Sessevalle%2C_photochrome.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Somain_-_Fosse_De_Sessevalle%2C_photochrome.jpg/960px-Somain_-_Fosse_De_Sessevalle%2C_photochrome.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1368" data-file-height="925" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Fosse De Sessevalle in the 1930s.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 191.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 189.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Li%C3%A9vin_-_Fosse_n%C2%B0_1_-_1_bis_-_1_ter_des_mines_de_Li%C3%A9vin_(G).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Fosse #1 - 1 bis - 1 ter of Liévin colliery, ca. 1910."><img alt="Fosse #1 - 1 bis - 1 ter of Liévin colliery, ca. 1910." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Li%C3%A9vin_-_Fosse_n%C2%B0_1_-_1_bis_-_1_ter_des_mines_de_Li%C3%A9vin_%28G%29.jpg/330px-Li%C3%A9vin_-_Fosse_n%C2%B0_1_-_1_bis_-_1_ter_des_mines_de_Li%C3%A9vin_%28G%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="190" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Li%C3%A9vin_-_Fosse_n%C2%B0_1_-_1_bis_-_1_ter_des_mines_de_Li%C3%A9vin_%28G%29.jpg/500px-Li%C3%A9vin_-_Fosse_n%C2%B0_1_-_1_bis_-_1_ter_des_mines_de_Li%C3%A9vin_%28G%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Li%C3%A9vin_-_Fosse_n%C2%B0_1_-_1_bis_-_1_ter_des_mines_de_Li%C3%A9vin_%28G%29.jpg/960px-Li%C3%A9vin_-_Fosse_n%C2%B0_1_-_1_bis_-_1_ter_des_mines_de_Li%C3%A9vin_%28G%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="1522" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Fosse #1 - 1 bis - 1 ter of Liévin colliery, ca. 1910.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 92px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 90px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Marles-les-Mines_-_Fosse_n%C2%B0_2_des_mines_de_Marles_(49).JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Fosse #2 of Marles colliery."><img alt="Fosse #2 of Marles colliery." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Marles-les-Mines_-_Fosse_n%C2%B0_2_des_mines_de_Marles_%2849%29.JPG/250px-Marles-les-Mines_-_Fosse_n%C2%B0_2_des_mines_de_Marles_%2849%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Marles-les-Mines_-_Fosse_n%C2%B0_2_des_mines_de_Marles_%2849%29.JPG/330px-Marles-les-Mines_-_Fosse_n%C2%B0_2_des_mines_de_Marles_%2849%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2736" data-file-height="3648" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Fosse #2 of Marles colliery.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Somain_-_Cit%C3%A9_De_Sessevalle,_coron_rue_Draguignan.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Miners housing, or corons, Cité De Sessevalle."><img alt="Miners housing, or corons, Cité De Sessevalle." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Somain_-_Cit%C3%A9_De_Sessevalle%2C_coron_rue_Draguignan.JPG/240px-Somain_-_Cit%C3%A9_De_Sessevalle%2C_coron_rue_Draguignan.JPG" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Somain_-_Cit%C3%A9_De_Sessevalle%2C_coron_rue_Draguignan.JPG/360px-Somain_-_Cit%C3%A9_De_Sessevalle%2C_coron_rue_Draguignan.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Somain_-_Cit%C3%A9_De_Sessevalle%2C_coron_rue_Draguignan.JPG/480px-Somain_-_Cit%C3%A9_De_Sessevalle%2C_coron_rue_Draguignan.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Miners housing, or <i><a 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France</a><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bourges_Cathedral" title="Bourges Cathedral">Bourges Cathedral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Champagne_hillsides,_houses_and_cellars" title="Champagne hillsides, houses and cellars">Champagne hillsides, houses and cellars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chartres_Cathedral" title="Chartres Cathedral">Chartres Cathedral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Climats,_terroirs_of_Burgundy" title="Climats, terroirs of Burgundy"><i>Climats</i> and <i>terroirs</i> of Burgundy</a></li> <li>Reims: <a href="/wiki/Reims_Cathedral" title="Reims Cathedral">Cathedral of Notre-Dame</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_Saint-Remi" title="Musée Saint-Remi">Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Tau" title="Palace of Tau">Palace of Tau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abbey_of_Fontenay" title="Abbey of Fontenay">Abbey of Fontenay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le_Havre" title="Le Havre">Le Havre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mont-Saint-Michel" 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navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Great Saltworks of <a href="/wiki/Salins-les-Bains" title="Salins-les-Bains">Salins-les-Bains</a> and <a href="/wiki/Royal_Saltworks_at_Arc-et-Senans" title="Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans">Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy,_France" title="Nancy, France">Nancy</a>: <a href="/wiki/Place_Stanislas" title="Place Stanislas">Place Stanislas</a>, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strasbourg" title="Strasbourg">Strasbourg</a>: <a href="/wiki/Grande_%C3%8Ele_(Strasbourg)" class="mw-redirect" title="Grande Île (Strasbourg)">Grande Île</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neustadt,_Strasbourg" title="Neustadt, Strasbourg">Neustadt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_pile_dwellings_around_the_Alps" title="Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps">Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps</a><sup><small>3</small></sup></li></ul> 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title="Lascaux">Prehistoric sites and decorated caves of the Vézère valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es_%E2%80%93_Mont_Perdu_World_Heritage_Site" title="Pyrénées – Mont Perdu World Heritage Site">Pyrénées – Mont Perdu</a><sup><small>2</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-%C3%89milion" title="Saint-Émilion">Saint-Émilion</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/First-level_NUTS_of_the_European_Union#France" title="First-level NUTS of the European Union">Centre East</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cha%C3%AEne_des_Puys" title="Chaîne des Puys">Chaîne des Puys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chauvet_Cave" title="Chauvet Cave">Chauvet Cave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/First-level_NUTS_of_the_European_Union#France" title="First-level NUTS of the European Union">Mediterranean</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arles,_Roman_and_Romanesque_Monuments" title="Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments">Roman and Romanesque monuments, Arles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cit%C3%A9_de_Carcassonne" title="Cité de Carcassonne">Carcassonne citadel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Porto" title="Gulf of Porto">Gulf of Porto</a>: <a href="/wiki/Calanques_de_Piana" title="Calanques de Piana">Calanches de Piana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corsica#Ecology" title="Corsica">Gulf of Girolata</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scandola_Nature_Reserve" title="Scandola Nature Reserve">Scandola Reserve</a></li> <li>Avignon: <a href="/wiki/Palais_des_Papes" title="Palais des Papes">Papal Palace</a>, Episcopal Ensemble, <a href="/wiki/Pont_Saint-B%C3%A9n%C3%A9zet" title="Pont Saint-Bénézet">Avignon Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pont_du_Gard" title="Pont du Gard">Pont du Gard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orange,_Vaucluse" title="Orange, Vaucluse">Orange</a>: <a href="/wiki/Roman_Theatre_of_Orange" title="Roman Theatre of Orange">Roman Theatre and environs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Triumphal_Arch_of_Orange" title="Triumphal Arch of Orange">Triumphal Arch</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Multiple regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Architectural_Work_of_Le_Corbusier" title="The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier">The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canal_du_Midi" title="Canal du Midi">Canal du Midi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fortifications_of_Vauban" title="Fortifications of Vauban">Fortifications of Vauban</a></li> <li><a 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