Lime ovens, factories and manufactures classified in the Rhône-Alpes

Factory
07220 Viviers

The Viviers lime factory in Ardèche is an industrial site of the 19th and 20th centuries, the birthplace of Lafarge Coppée. It includes ovens, workers' towns and a cement chapel, a witness to French cement history.

Factory
42400 Saint-Chamond

The Gillet factory in Saint-Chamond, an ancient 19th-century dye factory located on the edge of the Gier, is an iconic industrial monument of the Loire, listed as a historical monument since 1995.

38160 Chatte

The Galicia silk mill, located in Chatte (Isère), is a rare 19th century industrial testimony, preserving machinery and architecture typical of the work of silk in Dauphiné.

38870 Saint-Siméon-de-Bressieux

The former Girodon boarding school factory, built between 1873 and 1875 in Saint-Siméon-de-Bressieux (Isère), is a 19th-century industrial testimony combining silk factory and pise worker town, classified as a historic monument in 1990.

42800 Châteauneuf

The former Marrel factories, located in Châteauneuf (Loire), are an iconic 19th-century industrial site, marked by its 108-metre fireplace, which has been listed as a historic monument since 1992.

42330 Saint-Galmier

The former Badoit factory, built in the 19th century at Saint-Galmier in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, is an industrial testimony related to the exploitation of the Fontfort spring and the production of bottled mineral water.

69300 Caluire-et-Cuire

The Saint-Clair Water Factory, built in the 19th century in Cauire-et-Cuire near Lyon, was a major industrial facility for supplying drinking water to the city, using steam pumps from Cornwall.

69120 Vaulx-en-Velin

The Tase factory, a former textile factory from the 1st quarter of the 20th century in Vaulx-en-Velin (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes), specialized in the production of artificial silk. This iconic industrial site, now partially classified, illustrates the social and economic history of the Lyon region.