Heritage sites, Archaeological discoveries, History of Archaeology

Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans

Location

Franche-Comté Region

Country

France

Year of Research

1982

Culture

It was built by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux.
Its construction, begun in 1775 during the reign of Louis XVI, was the first major success of industrial architecture, reflecting the ideal of progress of the Enlightenment.
This enormous, semicircular complex was designed to permit a rational and hierarchical organization of work and was to have been followed by the building of an ideal city, a project that was never realized.