French Historic Monuments (Mérimée / POP)
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French Historic Monuments (Mérimée / POP)
Search France's official list of protected historic monuments (base Merimee / POP) by commune, department or keyword. Returns name, type, protection status, century, address, coordinates and a POP notice link. Free, key-free open data for tourism, heritage and GIS.
What it does
French Historic Monuments searches France's official register of protected historic monuments — the base Mérimée, published on the Plateforme Ouverte du Patrimoine (POP) by the Ministry of Culture. Give it a commune, a department or a keyword (château, cathédrale, église…) and it returns each monument historique with its Mérimée reference, name and type, protection status (classé / inscrit), century of construction, address, department, region and GPS coordinates — plus a direct link to the POP notice. No API key, no scraping. This actor is free — you only pay for your own Apify platform usage.
Input
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
queries | array of strings | One full-text search per entry: commune, department, monument name or keyword. |
maxResults | integer | Max monument records across all searches (default 200). |
Output
One dataset item per monument. Example:
Searches with no hits return {"status": "not_found"}; errors return {"status": "error"} with a message — the actor never crashes on a bad entry.
Use cases
- Build tourism, heritage or cultural-mapping datasets and itineraries.
- Enrich real-estate or territory data with nearby protected monuments.
- Research architecture by century, author, protection type or region.
- Feed a GIS layer of monuments historiques with coordinates and POP links.
Limitations & fair use
- Data reflects the official Mérimée list; some notices have no coordinates.
- Full-text search follows the source's own indexing and relevance.
- The actor paginates politely (short delay between pages) and caps at 10,000 hits per search term.
More actors by this developer
Part of a family of French open-data actors (IGN cadastre, museums, SIRENE companies, BAN addresses, and more). See all actors by vigilant_jasmine.
