Projects

As part of the Contract for the State Regional Projects for the period 2007-2013 and the plan for the management, preservation, and sustainable development of the town ofBesançon, as voted for in July 2007 by the municipal council, the fortifications of Vauban have been chosen to benefit from a...

• Number of inhabitants: 121 038 (INSEE census 2011)
• Area of the citadel: 11.2 ha
• Administrator subscribed: Citadel World heritage public body
• Number of agents: around 80 permanent and 50 temporary
• Number of visitors in 2013: 268,427; of which 60% are regional and 10% are foreign
• Annual budget...

Renovation of a monument dating from the late 14th century and creation of a new cultural facility.

The Campana barracks, the first in Mont-Dauphin built in 1695, consisted of seven modules on each of its two levels. It could therefore house 672 soldiers.

Initially the property of the Defence State, it was rented to the Mont-Dauphin town council from 1981. The latter then undertook the creation...

The objective of the present project is to preserve and evaluate the whole of the remarkable heritage of theGuillestroisCountywhile focusing on the stronghold of Mont-Dauphin.

With the creation of a database, the project must be launched with the goal of establishing community circuits to discover...

• Construction period: 1877 - 1880
• Municipality: Werkendam
• Ownership status (since 2007): Brabants landschap
• Guest house opened in 2012
• Sleeps: 30 people
• Annual consumption: 450 m3 (10 deliveries) i.e 9 000€ (heating and hot water)
• Output: 65 Kw

• Construction period: 1876-1880
• Surface area: 3,5 ha
• Legal status: association
• Ownership status: Staatsbosheer
• Duration of rental contract: 30 ans
• Number of visitors in 2013: 35 000
• Opening hours: weekends and during school holidays from 10: 00 am to 5: 00 pm, on reservation for groups (corporate...

Creation of circuits allowing the discovery of the heritage of the Guillestrois from the symbolic site of Mont-Dauphin.

The targeted objective is "the integration" of the stronghold within its area by linking present heritages and also its registration within a cross-border cultural network with...

Building with earth to adapt to unstable terrain
A vital part of the defensive triptych designed by Vauban to enclose the Gironde (together with the Blaye citadel and fort Pâté), fort Médoc, comprising a grassed earth enclosure backing onto the estuary, is built upon marshy land bordering the...

This project follows 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 of interpretation of cultural and natural...

• Area of the island: 28ha
• Ownership status: Coastline conservation authority
• OPerator: La Manche General Council
• Number of visitors (2013): 63 866
• Open to the general public: every day from 5 April to 5 October, more restricted the rest of the year
• Available accomodation: 35 rooms
• Amphibious...

2009 - Phillipe Prost Study

2012 - guideline plan

2012 - archaeological survey

2013 -2023 –work carried out

A woodland management plan enhances fortified heritage and leads to its long-term viability; equally it preserves and enhances woodland slopes, whilst ensuring a number of objectives, namely :

• that the ramparts can be seen from the valley,
• that the Valley can be seen from the ramparts.

To this...

Surface area inside the fortified city: 15ha

Contracting authority: commune of Longwy

Implementation: 20 years

Number of inhabitants (INSEE 2011): 14,628

Contractor: Philippe Prost Architectural firm

Study carried out by 2009

To ensure the preservation of the outstanding universal value (including authenticity and integrity) for future generations and anticipate and supervise the development of sites. In the case of serial properties, all components must meet the same requirements (the failure of one may cause them all...

• Altitude: 1 050 m
• Number of inhabitants: 154 (recensement INSEE 2011)
• Number of inhabitants Guillestrois community of communes: 5 500
• Surface area within the walled city: 16 ha
• Administrators subscribed: Commune of Mont-Dauphin (30 ha), Centre for National Monuments (proporty of ministry for...

A recognisable defensive landscape
The Mont-Louis stronghold comprises a town and a citadel, created from scratch in 1679 within a mountain setting in the heart of what is now the Regional Natural Park of the Catalan Pyrenees.
The zones of co-visibility between this fortress and the surrounding...