Notre-Dame du Haut
A hilltop chapel by Le Corbusier, built in 1955, with a curving concrete roof like an upturned hull and thick white walls pierced by small coloured windows. It is still a working chapel, and is listed by UNESCO among the architect's major works.
- Where
- Ronchamp, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
- Grade
- UNESCO heritage
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 8 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 47.7045, 6.6206
Get the Notre-Dame du Haut stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Notre-Dame du Haut. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Bourgogne-Franche-Comté volume with your photos and a note.
Near Notre-Dame du Haut
Citadel of Besançon 69 km
A 17th century fortress by Vauban covering 11 hectares on Mount Saint-Etienne, on the neck of land where the river Doubs loops around the old town. Its ramparts look over the city, and inside are museums and a small zoo.
Unterlinden Museum 69 km
A museum in a 13th century Dominican convent in Colmar, joined to a former public baths built in 1906. Its great treasure is the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald, with its harrowing Crucifixion, and it is the most visited museum in Alsace.
La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle 70 km
Two neighbouring towns in the Jura mountains laid out in neat parallel streets for the watchmaking trade, with workshops and homes built to catch the daylight. They are a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and La Chaux-de-Fonds is where Le Corbusier was born.
Basel Minster 75 km
A red sandstone church with twin towers and a patterned tiled roof, standing above the Rhine in the old town. Built as a Roman Catholic cathedral and now a Reformed church, it holds the tomb of the scholar Erasmus.
Kunstmuseum Basel 75 km
Home to the oldest public art collection in the world and generally held to be the most important art museum in Switzerland. Its galleries run from old masters such as Holbein to the art of the present day.
Fondation Beyeler 78 km
An art museum in a park at Riehen on the edge of Basel, built by Renzo Piano to house the collection of Hildy and Ernst Beyeler. It shows modern and older art and stages major exhibitions, and in 2016 was the most visited art museum in Switzerland.
Haut-Koenigsbourg Castle 81 km
A sandstone castle on a rocky spur of the Vosges, looking out over the Upper Rhine Plain. Abandoned after the Thirty Years' War, it was rebuilt between 1900 and 1908 for the German Kaiser Wilhelm II as a showpiece of the Middle Ages.
Augusta Raurica 85 km
The remains of the oldest known Roman colony on the Rhine, about 20 kilometres east of Basel near Augst and Kaiseraugst. Today an open-air museum, it has a Roman theatre, temples and a reconstructed Roman house among its ruins.
More UNESCO World Heritage sites in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Questions
Where is Notre-Dame du Haut?
Notre-Dame du Haut is in Ronchamp, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Citadel of Besançon (69 km), Unterlinden Museum (69 km), La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle (70 km).
How do I get the Notre-Dame du Haut stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Notre-Dame du Haut and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Bourgogne-Franche-Comté volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Notre-Dame du Haut before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Bourgogne-Franche-Comté volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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