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  • Fort de la Prée

    … Fort de la Prée History and description The fort de la Prée was built from 1625 by D’Argencourt and Le Camus, engineers under Louis XIII. It is a square fort with four bastions, …
    Département/Région
    Charente-Maritime

  • Blaye citadel

    … origin, the first urban wall in Blaye was built in the middle Ages, as well as a castle. These fortifications were … To do so, he continued the modernisation which Pagan had commenced: the medieval urban wall was totally restored and … stock houses were also constructed there. The construction site of the citadel, overseen by Ferry, was completed in …
    Département/Région
    Gironde

  • Montmédy

    … and description An agglomeration of medieval origin, the site of Montmédy had its first fortifications built in 1221 when Count Arnould III de Chiny constructed a castle there on the rocky headland dominating the course of the … a urban wall surrounded the Upper Town (Ville Haute) to complete the defensive set-up. From 1544, Charles Quint …
    Département/Région
    Meuse

  • Sélestat

    … Sélestat History and description A town of Carolingian origin, … three times (in 1280, then in the 14th and 15th centuries), until the town was captured by the France of Louis XIII in … and the arsenal de Saint-Hilaire (1518). The town housed a commandery of the Order of the Hospitaliers since the 13th …
    Département/Région
    Bas-Rhin

  • Sedan

    … came into being in the 10th century, equipped with a castle since the 13th century, Sedan was integrated into French … received Sedan and the independent principality it had become under Henri II. The angles of the former castle … known as Palatinat on its north-west flank, and can be visited. A hotel occupies the barracks. Numerous activities, …
    Département/Région
    Ardennes

  • Gravelines

    … Gravelines Historique et description A site occupied by fishermen since the 7th century, Gravelines … ramparts and brick walls. It was also endowed with a castle intended to oversee the locks of the river Aa and its … not until midway through the 18th century that they were completed with the deepening of the Aa channel in 1740. …
    Département/Région
    Nord

  • Fort Sainte-Marguerite

    … Sainte-Marguerite History and description Situated on the île de Lérins, facing the town of Cannes, the site of the fort Sainte-Marguerite has been a strategic hub … around the primitive castle. This construction was still incomplete however, when the Spanish gave the isle to the …
    Département/Région
    Alpes Maritimes

  • Cherbourg

    … siege construction made by Litus, Cherbourg has had a castle since the 10th century. The first urban wall is thought … importance of the port which faced England. In 1639, the commissioner general of the navy of Louis XIII, Louis le … that Louis XVI agreed to reconsider Cherbourg as a site for a military port. In 1779, the engineer de Caux took …
    Département/Région
    Manche

  • Nîmes

    … This urban wall disappeared under the Merovingians, while the city went back on the plans for an amphitheatre. In … of the Nantes edict in 1685. The engineer Francis Ferry was commissioned with designing the plans. In 1687, he submitted … in glass and steel, which are constructed on curtain wall sites, between the former barracks and bastions. People can …
    Département/Région
    Gard

  • Nice

    … A town of ancient origin, Nice has been fortified since at least the middle Ages. In the 14th century, the area of the … on the orders of Emmanuel-Philibert I of Savoy. A hornwork comprising two orillon bastions was built in front of the … county of Nice, ordered this construction in 1677. Vauban visited Nice for the first time in 1693, two years after it …
    Département/Région
    Alpes Maritimes

  • Calais

    … The west flank was protected in 1228, by a Philippian castle including a large detached tower. The urban wall was … channel to the sea. The urban wall was first adapted to accommodate artillery with the installation of new towers for … XIV. Vauban, however, was given the task of modifying the site from 1677. His constructions included modifications …
    Département/Région
    Pas-de-Calais

  • Guise

    … Agglomeration of Merovingian origin, Guise has had a castle since the 10th century. It was in 945 that the town … bastions of the castle included casemates and corridors for communications with musket firing loops. The construction … Louvois, the War Minister, disagreed and sent him on an on-site visit on 19 January, 1673. After this visit, Vauban …
    Département/Région
    Aisne

  • Fort de Bellegarde

    … Fort de Bellegarde History and description The Bellegarde hill (420 m. … pass (271 m.) perched on the Franco-Spain border. The site has been occupied since the middle Ages, the objective … however. In March 1668, the Knight of Clerville, Commissioner-General of the fortifications, visited the site …
    Département/Région
    Pyrénées-Orientales

  • Entrevaux

    … Entrevaux History and description A site occupied since the time of the Celts, the town of Entrevaux only emerged under the Merovingians on the right bank of the Var. In the … defend the town sparked its relocation to a site along the left bank and installation at the present-day spur. The town …
    Département/Région
    Alpes de Haute-Provence

  • Fouras

    … Fouras History and description A site fortified since the 12th century, the castle of Fouras was reconstructed during the 14th-15th … constructed on the former moats of Ferry, which remained incomplete. castle then fort François Ferry Charente-Maritime …
    Département/Région
    Charente-Maritime

  • Seyne

    … History and description A town of Gallo-Roman origin, Seyne-les-Alpes had its first fortifications built around 1220 … first wall with bastioned towers. Their construction was completed in 1692. Vauban did not visit Seyne but included … and enclosed one of the bastioned towers. In 1700, Vauban visited Seyne and thinks the citadel was poorly constructed …
    Département/Région
    Alpes de Haute-Provence

  • Fort Pâté

    … Fort Pâté History and description The fort Pâté is a compact tower with an artillery platform, an example of this genre, installed on an … a real architectural feat, since the instability of the ground required the fort to be built atop a wooden sill. …
    Département/Région
    Gironde

  • Epiry

    … description The village of Morvan, Epiry is not a fortified site. Its inclusion in this inventory is based on the fact … lived there during his first twenty years of marriage, at least when possible for him to do so. Vauban reorganised the … there in 1809 on the orders of Napoléon I in order to commemorate the fact that Vauban lived there. The church is …
    Département/Région
    Nièvre

  • Ambleteuse

    … Ambleteuse History and description The first modern … date back to 1544-1546. In 1685, Vauban chose this site to build a coastal defensive battery, which was … one first rampart flanked the tower. Work at the site was completed in 1690, during the war of the League of …
    Département/Région
    Pas-de-Calais

  • Neuf-Brisach

    … from scratch by Vauban. Its construction was intended to compensate for the loss of the fortified town of … the Thirty Years war. The Treaty of Rijswick of 1697 compelled France to return the Baden area to Austria and to … Mandated by Louis XIV from 1697, Vauban selected the site of Neuf-Brisach due to its proximity to Brisach, while …
    Département/Région
    Haut-Rhin

  • Concarneau

    … Concarneau History and description The site of the rock of Concarneau has been occupied since the … the wedding of Anne de Bretagne with the King of France Charles VIII transformed Concarneau in a royal stronghold. In … with new firing chambers. A project from 1694 remained incomplete. In 1837, the July Monarchy modernised the site by …
    Département/Région
    Finistère

  • Fort Cézon

    … the siege of Brest by the English, one that Vauban had repelled. The site had already been marked out in 1685 and a project of … gate was included in this front. Within the ramparts, the complete set-up included barracks, a guardroom, food stores, …
    Département/Région
    Finistère

  • Saint-Malo

    … du Grand Donjon was constructed at the same time. This whole fortified development was redeveloped in the 14th century … port of the kingdom of France: city of Corsairs but also of commerce and negotiation. The outbreak of the war of the … parapet. The engineer Garangeau applied the construction on-site, while ensuring it was also continually adapted to the …
    Département/Région
    Ille-et-Vilaine

  • Perpignan

    … Perpignan History and description Founded on a strategic site since Antiquity, Perpignan became the residence of the … fortifications were built in the form of a primitive Cellera, very rapidly replaced by an initial urban wall, of … also equipped with ravelins. This initial construction was completed in 1577 but others followed in the 16th and 17th …
    Département/Région
    Pyrénées-Orientales

  • Bergues

    … Bergues History and description Medieval town, comprising two initial urban centres (the Saint-Winocq abbey and the new town of the count of Flanders Baudouin IV on the hill of Groenberg), … fortifications, in the form of a urban wall and a castle (of the motte-and-bailey type). These walls would be …
    Département/Région
    Nord

  • Mirepeysset

    … Mirepeysset History and description The site of Mirepeysset (or Mirepeďsset) is linked to the canal du Midi, just like that of Cammazes covered in the file of the same name. It is linked to one of the difficult … crossing the Cesse river, encased in a hollow of land in comparison to the level of water in the canal. When he …
    Département/Région
    Hérault

  • Maubeuge

    … between 1000 and 1150. A tower was constructed on the isle (now gone) of la Sambre, as well as an initial urban wall … Included in the first line of the Pré Carré, Louis XIV visited Maubeuge twice and tasked Vauban with building the … frame of two medieval gates is preserved. The construction commenced in 1679 and was completed in 1685. The new urban …
    Département/Région
    Nord

  • Belfort

    … the right bank of the Savoureuse, Belfort grew from a castle of the 11th century guarding the Belfort Gap, between the … into a citadel. This regularisation of the route was also accompanied by an expansion of the perimeter of the urban … enjoy protection as an historic monument. They can be visited freely, with or without a guide – contact the …
    Département/Région
    Territoire de Belfort

  • Saint-Omer

    … origin, Saint-Omer has been fortified since 900, when a castle and a market were installed around the collegial and … Netherlands Spanish, multiple other bastions and ravelins completed the defences. Certain projects remained unrealised … to protect the dykes. All the moats surrounding the site were flooded. fort, then entrenched camp with hydraulic …
    Département/Région
    Nord

  • Strasbourg

    … History and description In the Alsace plain, on the left bank of the Rhine, where it meets the Ill and Bruche, … siege conducted by Louis XIV in person for Strasbourg to become French in 1681. After having captured the town, Vauban … the fortifications of Alsace, directed the construction on-site and applied the project of Vauban, which continued up …
    Département/Région
    Bas-Rhin