Lime ovens, factories and manufactures classified in Occitanie

Fours à chaux
65100 Lourdes

The Lourdes lime oven, built between the 19th and 20th centuries, is a former industrial site located in the Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie. This historic monument illustrates the region's chaussive activity.

Usine
65800 Aureilhan

The Oustau white and red factory in Aureilhan (Occitanie) is an industrial complex of the 19th century, famous for its Hoffmann ovens and its decorations in polychrome varnished bricks, now disused but protected.

Fours à chaux
34260 La Tour-sur-Orb

The La Tour-sur-Orb lime kiln, built in 1854 in the Hérault, is a former industrial factory of the 2nd half of the 19th century, classified as a historical monument for its architecture representative of the evolution of lime production techniques.

Fours à chaux
34190 Laroque

The Laroque lime factory, built in the nineteenth century in the Hérault, is a former industrial site linked to the production of lime and cement, bearing witness to the Occitan technical heritage.

31000 Toulouse

The Manufacture des Tabacs de Toulouse, built between 1888 and 1894, is a former major industrial site of the nineteenth century, now university annex. Located in Occitanie, it illustrates Toulouse's social and economic history.

Four solaire
66120 Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via

The Odeillo solar oven, built in the third quarter of the 20th century in Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via (Occitanie), is a unique scientific laboratory using solar energy to reach extreme temperatures (up to 3,300 °C).

31400 Toulouse

The Latécoère de Montaudran aviation plant, founded in 1917 in Toulouse, is an iconic 20th century industrial site, the cradle of French civil and military aviation. Its halls and castle testify to the epic Aeropostal and aviation innovation.

11170 Montolieu

The former Royal Manufacture of Montolieu, built in the 18th century in Aude, was a textile factory specializing in fine sheets, erected as a royal manufacture by Louis XV in 1734.