International Day for Monuments and Sites
Saturday, April 18 Workshop and game of Mölky from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (workshop runs continuously). Guided tour: 3:00 p.m. Site hours: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. – last admission at 5:30 p.m.
This event is being held to mark the 10th anniversary of the inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List of the serial property The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier: An Exceptional Contribution to the Modern Movement.
Educational Workshop: To mark National Monuments and Sites Day and this anniversary, we invite you to discover the Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp from a fresh perspective through this UNESCO-themed educational workshop. This activity offers a fun way to understand the serial inscription of Le Corbusier’s architectural work on the World Heritage List and the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the chapel.
UNESCO Mölkky® Game: This activity, complementing the UNESCO workshop, is based on the famous Nordic skittles game, with the same rules… and an extra challenge! To score points, players must knock down the skittles and answer questions about the chapel, World Heritage, and the UNESCO inscription.
Themed Guided Tour — The UNESCO World Heritage Chapel: This tour explores the 2016 inscription of Le Corbusier’s works on the UNESCO World Heritage List, which includes the chapel due to its Outstanding Universal Value.
Travel Journal of UNESCO Sites in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: To mark National Monuments and Sites Day, the UNESCO World Heritage sites in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté are offering a shared educational resource. This guidebook invites visitors to explore the region’s nine UNESCO sites through puzzles, mini-games, and quizzes. It helps families discover the region’s cultural and natural heritage. Once completed, visitors can have the site they’ve just discovered stamped.
Video Screening – UNESCO Sites of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: A video presentation of the UNESCO sites in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region will be screened at the Pilgrim’s Shelter throughout the weekend. A day dedicated to discovery, play, and sharing, to better understand why the Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp is now renowned worldwide.
World Heritage Celebration
Sunday, April 19
Workshop – Artistic performance with Nathalie Novi featuring the Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut.
Nathalie Novi is a literary illustrator and a graduate of the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In her work, she combines various techniques—pastels, acrylics, oil paints, graphite, and colored pencils—and draws inspiration from painting as well as literature, film, music, and dance. Her work, focused on the themes of childhood and family, leads her particularly toward children’s literature. She has thus illustrated some sixty picture books, all by renowned authors, which have allowed her to participate in numerous festivals and book fairs around the world (Belgium, China, Greece, India, Lebanon, Morocco…). This workshop-performance involves the creation of a collective mural inspired by the Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut, an iconic masterpiece of the post-war revival of sacred art. While Nathalie Novi paints on a large kraft paper canvas (approximately 2 m x 1.10 m), participants create poetic elements evoking the site—the surrounding nature, architectural lines, light, and sensations. These creations will then be cut out and incorporated into the final work.
The workshop consists of several participatory sessions (maximum 12 people per session, duration: 45 minutes from 10:45 AM to 3:30 PM). Each participant creates an individual element on half a sheet of A4 paper using colored markers, before carefully cutting it out so it can be incorporated into the mural.
Workshop open to adults and children ages 5 and up (autonomy preferred). This performance invites you to see the chapel in a new light, to experience its poetry, and—for the duration of the workshop—to become a participant in a collective work inspired by one of the great masterpieces of modern architecture.
Travel Journal of UNESCO Sites in Bourgogne–Franche-Comté.
As part of Monuments and Sites Day, the UNESCO World Heritage sites in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté are offering a shared educational tool. This activity booklet invites visitors to explore the region’s nine UNESCO sites through puzzles, mini-games, and quizzes. It helps families discover the region’s cultural and natural heritage. Once completed, visitors can have the site they’ve just discovered stamped.
Video Screening – UNESCO Sites of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
A video presentation of the UNESCO sites in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region will be screened at the Pilgrim’s Shelter throughout the weekend. A day dedicated to discovery, play, and sharing, to better understand why the Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp is now renowned worldwide.
