Les « Itinéraires » et « Parcours du patrimoine » : entre support de visite et brochure savante

• Main Author: Georges Coste
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication 2011-06-01
• Series: In Situ : Revue de Patrimoines
• Subjects: General inventory of the cultural heritage (France); guidebooks; Inventory publications; Itinéraires du patrimoine; Parcours du patrimoine
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/insitu/600
• ISSN: 1630-7305

Twenty years ago, the French general inventory service launched a collection of small guidebooks for the discovery of the heritage, initially baptised Itinéraires du patrimoine, heritage itineraries, and then Parcours du patrimoine, heritage journeys, or heritage trails. The present article is a guide to these guidebooks, which comprise 360 individual publications. It analyses the monuments and places dealt with and the themes addressed. It also deals with some of the collection's vicissitudes, in view of its ambitions.