The 100 monuments selected as part of the Heritage Lottery

Cathedral, church, keep, castle… There are a hundred buildings to have been selected for the sixth edition of the lottery. The operation launched in 2018 as part of the Heritage Mission aims to safeguard the endangered treasures of our regions. The winners selected for the year 2023 complete the list of eighteen so-called “emblematic” monuments which were designated in each region last March and which will appear on the tickets on sale.

Sponsored by Stéphane Bern, this project identifies, thanks to a network of volunteers, sites in fragile situations and then finances their restoration. The funds collected through scratch games and draws allow the structures to take on the sometimes substantial work.

“Mission Heritage” game tickets

As usual, the Heritage Loto is partnering with the Française des jeux (FDJ). It is already possible to buy your Illiko Mission Patrimoine scratch ticket for the sum of 15 euros. The key is the possibility of winning up to 1.5 million euros and contributing to the influence of the cultural heritage of our regions: for each purchase, the Heritage Foundation receives 1.83 euros.

A very special Lotto

From September 4 to 16, seven Loto draws including a very special one will be held:

• On September 4, 6, 9, 11, 13 and 16, French people will have the opportunity to participate in Loto draws with a jackpot of at least 2 million euros. For each grid played, 0.54 euros will be donated to the Heritage Foundation.
• On September 15, on the eve of European Heritage Days, the FDJ is offering amateur players and architecture enthusiasts a Super Lotto worth 13 million euros. Here too, part of the sum paid for the purchase of a grid will be intended for the preservation of the monuments.

The amount of the allocation allocated to each site will be communicated by the end of the year.

Six years of commitment

To define the priority nature of a project, the Ministry of Culture and the Heritage Foundation rely on the level of wear and tear of the place, its heritage appeal and finally its role in the enhancement of the local territory. Since 2018, some 862 buildings steeped in history have been selected by Mission Bern. Of these, 245 have already been saved, while 250 are being restored.

For this edition, 8% of the 100 departmental sites selected for the Heritage Lottery concern municipalities with less than 500 inhabitants, the most deprived to restore their monuments.