Our built heritage bears important testimony to different political, economic, social or architectural periods, leaving a unique imprint on our towns and countryside.
For the first time ever, statistical findings on Switzerland’s built heritage are available, divided into three areas: historic monuments, archaeology and historic towns and settlements.
| 2016 | |
|---|---|
| Historic monuments | |
| Number of listed monuments | 271 527 |
| Number of protected historic monuments | 75 084 |
| Number of protected monuments of national importance | 2752 (3.7%) |
| Protected monuments: number of sacred monuments | 7240 (9.6%) |
| Archaeology | |
| Number of recorded archaeological sites | 38 804 |
| Number of protected archaeological zones | 9 815 |
| Total area of protected archaeological zones in hectares | 39 905 |
| Historic towns and settlements | |
| Number of historic towns and settlements of national importance (ISOS inventory) | 1 274 |
| Number of historic towns and settlements of regional importance | 1 867 |
| Number of historic towns and settlements of local importance | 1 556 |
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