West Berniers and Cooperage, Royal Saltworks

Batiment des Gardes (right), the entrance building to the site and now a ticket office and hotel, the Cooperage or Tonnelerie (centre), used for barrel making, communal kitchens, wood storage and barrel makers accommodation, now the Ledoux Museum or Musee Ledoux, and the Berniers Ouest (left), saltworkers accommodation, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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