Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans

metropolitan France · France

Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans, France
Photo: Stefan Kühn, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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April to October
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An 18th-century industrial complex laid out as an idealized semicircular factory town for salt production. Its neoclassical buildings embody Enlightenment ideas of rational, planned industry.

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