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Major Vauban site

  • Arras

    … built around a rectangular courtyard, forms the finest example of a citadel on the plain according to Vauban’s first … 1670 Pas-de-Calais new plain citadel of the first system Communauté urbaine d’Arras La citadelle Boulevard du général … du Général de Gaulle: free parking at the citadel, opposite the Arras Memorial and the British cemetery in the …
    Département
    Pas-de-Calais

  • Besançon

    … he made higher to protect it from the Chaudanne and Brégille hills. He transformed Battant’s medieval town wall with … 1668 and 1692 Doubs adaptation to a dominated meander site - Vauban's second system for bastioned towers Ville de … tourisme et des congrès de Besançon www.besancon-tourisme.com Phone number: +33 3 81 80 92 55 …
    Département
    Doubs

Project

  • Interpretation path

    … a study on the improvement of access to the stronghold site. It must allow improved site access sustainably (bicycle and pedestrian). The purpose is to reclassify an existing community path and introduce visitors to the first elements …
    Project sponsor(s)
    Guillestrois County
    Keywords
    • landscape redevelopment
    • accessibility
    • bicycle and pedestrian way
    • sustainable tourism
    • natural area
    • signing
    • heritage signing

  • Conservation and restoration of the citadel

    … and the plan for the management, preservation, and sustainable development of the town ofBesançon, as voted for in July … amounts to 2.1 million euros. The restoration of seven on-site pieces reflects the need to value these jewels of … to maintain and preserve exceptional heritage for future generations but also to spark off new functions and …
    Project sponsor(s)
    Town of Besançon
    Keywords
    • fortified heritage
    • cultural mediation
    • conservation
    • restoration
    • safety
    • restoration technique

  • Virtual Visit to the Verrou de l’Estuaire

    … of the Verrou de l’Estuaire aims at promoting an inscribed site on the List of World Heritage, alongside 11 other … in situ, except the fort Pâté, which has remained inaccessible (no landing stage on the isle). … Virtual Visit to the Verrou de l’Estuaire …
    Project sponsor(s)
    The canton of Blaye County
    Keywords
    • mediation tool
    • touristic development
    • general public
    • NICT

  • Besançon, maintenance carried out under the Community Service Scheme

    … of Besançon, through political will, is a registered site for Community Service and has accepted young offenders on … the Citadel thus benefiting society through reparation measures. … Besançon, maintenance carried out under the …
    Project sponsor(s)
    World Heritage Citadel – Public Institution
    Keywords
    • fortified heritage
    • construction site for insertion
    • maintenance

  • Achievement of a manipulable educational model of the Vauban tower

    … put forward by the Town of Camaret-sur-Mer, manager of the site. It came into being based on the willingness of the commune to develop and diversify its touristic and cultural … among other things, to raise the awareness of the "laypeople" public and young people. In line with this objective, …
    Project sponsor(s)
    Town of Camaret-sur-Mer
    Keywords
    • mediation tool
    • educational project
    • young visitors
    • schools
    • general public

  • Restoration of the fort du Randouillet barrack’s roofs, Briançon

    … The Fort du Randouillet is located on a steep and narrow rocky mound, … slope of100 metres. The various buildings that make up this site were constructed to meet the requirements of military … to adapt to the constraints of the site. This results in a complex layout on three levels, similar to that of a …
    Project sponsor(s)
    Town of Briançon
    Keywords
    • fortified heritage
    • construction
    • conservation
    • maintenance
    • restoration
    • restoration technique
    • material

Vauban site

  • Québec

    … Québec Doté d’un promontoire escarpé dominant le fleuve Saint-Laurent et situé (comme son nom l’indique) « à l’endroit oů le fleuve se rétrécit », le site de Québec offre une défense naturelle exceptionnelle. …

  • Mont-Dauphin

    … army of Savoy against the Dauphiné, during the war of the League of Augsbourg. The selected site was the plateau de Mille-Aures at an altitude of 1,050 … fragile. In 1700, Vauban made a second on-site visit. He recommended that the ramparts, the flanked portion of which at …
    Département/Région
    Hautes-Alpes

  • Château Queyras

    … Château Queyras Les origines médiévales du Château Queyras L’origine … inutile pour la défense, Louis XIII décide de le conserver comme poste de surveillance, d’autant plus sur ce territoire … effectués par Vauban, l’alimentation en eau du site restait problématique. Durant la Révolution française, …
    Département/Région
    Hautes-Alpes

  • Salins-les-Bains

    … Salins-les-Bains History and description Situated in the valley of the river called Furieuse (altitude: 300 m.), the site of Salins-les-Bains has been occupied since the Gallic … of Salins-les-Bains, which was the second town of Franche-Comté in the middle Ages. It was surrounded by an urban wall …
    Département/Région
    Jura

  • Louisbourg

    … La fondation de Louisbourg Située dans une baie de l’île Royale (actuelle île du Cape Breton), la ville de … bastionnées, localisées sur les points dominants du site. Ce projet devient rapidement plus substantif. De … qui retardèrent les travaux de maçonnerie, la priorité fut donnée aux défenses côté terre ainsi qu’à l’installation …

  • Besançon

    … a urban wall and acquired its first bridge, situated at the site of the current Battant bridge. Originally restricted by the course of the Doubs and the hill of the future citadel, Besançon spread out in the middle Ages on the right bank. The urban wall was expanded to …
    Département/Région
    Doubs

  • Longwy

    … agglomeration of Longwy emerged at the end of the High Middle Ages, and had its own castel site in around the 11th century. The original village … 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 …
    Département/Région
    Meurthe-et-Moselle

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