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  • Château Queyras

    … L’origine médiévale du Château Queyras est attestée en 1265 lors de son rattachement au Dauphiné. Situé à 1 390 … inutile pour la défense, Louis XIII décide de le conserver comme poste de surveillance, d’autant plus sur ce territoire …
    Département/Région
    Hautes-Alpes

  • Salses

    … Ramiro Lopez, for king Ferdinand of Aragon. It replaced a medieval castle taken by the French in 1496 and restored to … To enhance the defence, Lopez created an original fortress combining medieval and modern fortification. The castle was a …
    Département/Région
    Pyrénées-Orientales

  • Auxonne

    … Auxonne History and description Medieval town situated on the left bank of the Saône, which … a bastioned fortification from 1668 but ultimately did not come to fruition. It would not be until 1673 that … bastioned fortification was completed during the period 1826 to 1830. The ramparts were repaired after the two sieges …
    Département/Région
    Côte d’Or

  • Valenciennes

    … been well preserved and surrounded the original nucleus comprising the eglise Notre-Dame-du-Saint-Cordon, the eglise … castle at the start of the 9th century, on the site of the future fortress of the Modern Era. In the 12th century, the … and Isabelle, governors of Spanish Netherlands, the last medieval sections of the ramparts were replaced with modern …
    Département/Région
    Nord

  • Saint-Malo

    … Saint-Malo History and description A port town of medieval origin founded in the 6th century, Saint-Malo had its … port of the kingdom of France: city of Corsairs but also of commerce and negotiation. The outbreak of the war of the … he had established a vast defensive plan : the urban medieval wall was to be preserved but reinforced with …
    Département/Région
    Ille-et-Vilaine

  • Sélestat

    … that, the first urban wall was constructed. This urban medieval wall was rebuilt three times (in 1280, then in the … and the arsenal de Saint-Hilaire (1518). The town housed a commandery of the Order of the Hospitaliers since the 13th century. In 1673, the urban medieval wall was finally demolished during the war of …
    Département/Région
    Bas-Rhin

  • Cherbourg

    … returned to France in 1450. The castle and the medieval ramparts were then restored at the time. In the … importance of the port which faced England. In 1639, the commissioner general of the navy of Louis XIII, Louis le … in 1687, they were abandoned by Louvois in 1689. The medieval castle was demolished in 1688. Other projects were …
    Département/Région
    Manche

  • Nancy

    … Nancy History and description A town of medieval origins, the Old Town (Vieille Ville) of Nancy had … fortifications built in around the 11th century. These medieval ramparts were repaired multiple times before finally … urban wall of 1550. Only the porte Saint-Nicolas allowed communication between the two towns. The town-planning of …
    Département/Région
    Meurthe-et-Moselle

  • Louisbourg

    … du traité d’Utrecht, les territoires de Terre-Neuve et d’Acadie passent aux mains des Anglais. La France perd alors ses … reliant des redoutes bastionnées, localisées sur les points dominants du site. Ce projet devient rapidement plus … qui retardèrent les travaux de maçonnerie, la priorité fut donnée aux défenses côté terre ainsi qu’à l’installation …

  • Besançon

    … restricted by the course of the Doubs and the hill of the future citadel, Besançon spread out in the middle Ages on … districts. It was the 15th century when the extent of the medieval fortifications reached its peak. At this time, … start of the 17th century, however, this protection had become insufficient. Besieged in 1668, the town was occupied …
    Département/Région
    Doubs

  • Abbeville

    … works. The bastion de Longueville, also known as the Quatre Coins (‘Four Corners’), was constructed under his reign … Longuetown was modified. However, these projects remained incomplete at the time of his passing in 1610. The cardinal of … de Rambure was modernised. Under the Restoration, the medieval rampart between the porte de Macardé and the river …
    Département/Région
    Somme

  • Trarbach

    … par un château fort, dit Grevenburg ( i.e. château des comtes ) édifié après 1357 par le comte Jean III de Sponheim. Ce château est composé d’un donjon rectangulaire doté de quatre tourelles …

  • Blaye citadel

    … To do so, he continued the modernisation which Pagan had commenced: the medieval urban wall was totally restored and transformed into … gate, while a barbican became a bastion flank; the former medieval porte Saint-Romain became a military hospital. After …
    Département/Région
    Gironde

  • Landskron

    … to protect the access road, a covered way around the medieval castle and a glacis with two bastions and a curtain … added to the west of the castle on the hill. As for the medieval keep, a floor was removed to accommodate an artillery platform and its thick walls housed a …
    Département/Région
    Haut-Rhin

  • Guise

    … five bastions and dug out dry moats around the medieval castle. Two ravelins were added to the south. The … barracks was constructed. Intended for three thousand soldiers, it was named the building of Three Thousand. An … bastions of the castle included casemates and corridors for communications with musket firing loops. The construction …
    Département/Région
    Aisne

  • Prats-de-Mollo

    … such as the tour de Mir and the tour de la Guardia (Gardies signifies watch tower in Catalan). The town also … underway until 1670, the year in which Louis XIV had the medieval walls destroyed to punish Prats-de-Mollo, centre of … Louvois, the War Minister, persuaded Louis XIV against completing the project but the medieval defensive walls were …
    Département/Région
    Pyrénées-Orientales

  • Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port

    … Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port History and description A town of medieval origin, situated at the meeting point of the three … formed along the road to Saint James of Compostela. It received its first urban wall in the 14th … an urban wall enclosing and expanding the town. The urban medieval wall was partially replaced by an urban wall equipped …
    Département/Région
    Pyrénées-Atlantiques

  • Maubeuge

    … fortifications there. The latter proceeded to have the medieval urban wall demolished and built what is the current … were demolished for these modifications. The frame of two medieval gates is preserved. The construction commenced in 1679 and was completed in 1685. The new urban …
    Département/Région
    Nord

  • Aire-sur-la-Lys

    … Aire-sur-la-Lys History and description A town of medieval origin, situated on the left bank of the Lys, … created a new fortified urban wall on the basis of the medieval fortifications to the east of the town. On the … lie in place of ramparts which were demolished in 1893. To complete the study, a relief map of the town should be …
    Département/Région
    Pas-de-Calais

  • Cammazes

    … This mountain is situated along the line separating the bodies of water between the hydrographic basins of the Garonne … the output in Bas-Languedoc. Louis XIV finally decided to commence construction including drilling from 1666. The … The engineer Niquet continued in the same vein up until 1726. hydraulic construction Pierre-Paul Riquet, Louis-Nicolas …
    Département/Région
    Tarn

  • Montmédy

    … Montmédy History and description An agglomeration of medieval origin, the site of Montmédy had its first … a urban wall surrounded the Upper Town (Ville Haute) to complete the defensive set-up. From 1544, Charles Quint … was constructed during this period, on the site of the medieval castle, which disappeared. Captured by France in …
    Département/Région
    Meuse

  • Avesnes-sur-Helpe

    … Avesnes-sur-Helpe History and description A town of medieval origin, Avesnes-sur-Helpe is the product of two older urban centres coming together, which first emerged around the 10th century … this modernisation, a new relief map was put together in 1826, replacing that of 1725, which had been seized by the …
    Département/Région
    Nord

  • Toulon

    … Henri IV and during the troubles of the League, the urban medieval wall was replaced by an urban bastioned wall, … the project in 1589 and directed the construction up to its completion in 1595. This urban wall was extended into the … in line with an orthogonal layout, which extended the medieval urban fabric. The urban wall was transformed by …
    Département/Région
    Var

  • Brest

    … fort with a coastal defence. This fort was replaced by a medieval castle from the 12th century. Up to the 16th century, … of around one thousand five hundred people. The medieval castle was surrounded by bastions around 1530 and the … became silted up. In 1667, the Knight of Clerville, Commissioner-General of the fortifications, set up a project …
    Département/Région
    Finistère

  • Longwy

    … modern fortifications were constructed until this time. A medieval urban wall surrounded the small town of Longwy-Haut … 1672, razed to the ground by the French. In 1678, after the combat in the war of Holland came to an end and the set-up … remaining parts of the castle and the small pre-existing medieval town. A new fortified town, given the same name as …
    Département/Région
    Meurthe-et-Moselle

  • Nice

    … In the 14th century, the area of the urban wall and the medieval castle peaked. When the county of Nice was connected … on the orders of Emmanuel-Philibert I of Savoy. A hornwork comprising two orillon bastions was built in front of the … with a capital basin and casemates to accommodate the soldiers. Entry was via a spiralling staircase following by a …
    Département/Région
    Alpes Maritimes

  • Mont-Royal

    … redentées successives. Les flancs ouest et est ne sont composés que de murailles à pic sur les pentes rocheuses … totale à mille cinq cent personnes, venues de tous les coins de France. Cette population possède une juridiction … fonds cartographiques français et allemands permettent d’étudier Mont-Royal qui n’a pas été réoccupé depuis. … Mont-Royal …

  • Nîmes

    … again and a second urban wall was constructed. These medieval ramparts were repaired multiple times and were … of the Nantes edict in 1685. The engineer Francis Ferry was commissioned with designing the plans. In 1687, he submitted … an esplanade towards the town. Moreover, a portion of the medieval urban wall had to be demolished with this aim in …
    Département/Région
    Gard

  • Gravelines

    … rampart with six great bastions and a glacis covering the medieval walls. The bastion of the castle was transformed and … not until midway through the 18th century that they were completed with the deepening of the Aa channel in 1740. …
    Département/Région
    Nord

  • Breisach-am-Rhein

    … 1638 par le duc Bernhard de Saxe-Weimar, général allemand combattant pour les armées de Louis XIII, Breisach est … une inspection du ministre Louvois. Cette enceinte est composée de sept fronts bastionnés équipés de huit bastions, … Le système défensif de la tête de pont rejoignant la France comprend un fort carré à quatre bastions et une demi-lune …