un village patrimonial

[gemtrad]

Hello,

How would you translate "patrimoniale" accurately in the following context:

Son intérêt pour l’architecture s’est accentué depuis sa rencontre en 2000 avec l’architecte Armando Ruinelli à qui il a confié un projet comportant une maison et un studio de prise de vues dans le canton des Grisons, à Soglio, un village patrimoniale perché dans les Alpes suisses — achevé en 2003, le projet a reçu le prix Häuser en 2005.

Could I say "a traditional village" ?

Thanks for your suggestions.

 

[marcolo]

It is "village patrimonial" (no "e" because village is masculine). If you go to wikipedia page :

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soglio

You will see that Soglio is classified as a part of swiss cultural heritage, I think that "patrimonial" has this meaning here, to notice that this village has an important historical and cultural value.

 

[jtm22]

We have the term "heritage village" which might be a good fit...