The count has been done. It says a lot. The Olympic torch relay for the Paris 2024 Games, which is due to begin its journey in France on May 8 in Marseille, will honor around thirty sites listed as UNESCO world heritage sites. The first on the list is scheduled for May 12 in the Bouches-du-Rhône department: the city of Arles and its Roman and Romanesque monuments (photo above). Four days later, the torch will discover the fortified city of Carcassonne, then the Sainte-Marie d'Auch cathedral two days later. There will be no downtime until Friday July 26, the day of the opening ceremony, also organized in the setting of a UNESCO World Heritage site, the banks of the Seine. In the meantime, the relay will have completed its collection with, among others, the vineyards of Burgundy, the cathedrals of Reims, Chartres and Amiens, Mont Saint-Michel, the town of Provins, or even the palaces and parks of Fontainebleau and Versailles.
