Projects

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...

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...

• 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...

• Surface area within the walled city: 26,3 ha
• Number of inhabitants: 2 045 (INSEE census 2011)
• Administrator subscribed: commune of Neuf-Brisach
• Contracting parties: Community of communes of the Brisach district / commune of Neuf-Brisach
• Implementation: July 2012
• Scenographer: Véronique Bretin...

• Construction period: 1815-1940
• Stretch of the line of defence: 85 km
• Width of the line of defence: 3 à 5 km
• Number of communes: 24
• Number of fortified towns: 5
• Number of forts and other structures: 60
• Number of redeveloped forts: 40

• Non fort profit organisation created in 2012
• Number of participants: 100, including entrepreneurs, local authorities and services providers
• Number of employees: 2

English Heritage, owner of 400 sites in the United Kingdom, has an active volunteering policy. In fact, heritage preservation relies only partially on public funds and very strongly on driving forces led by volunteers. In 2012-2013, more than 1,000 volunteers carried out 62,000 hours of work, broken...

In May 2014, a new multimedia show was inaugurated at the Saint-Étienne chapel. 300° projections of historical documents, spectacular real-life views and computer-generated images, completed by an actor and sound effects, offer visitors a unique 14-minute experience for understanding the history of...

To make information and useful references accessible for anyone interested in the management, co-ordination, or development of fortified heritage. Through this project, the Vauban network aim to become a true national and international reference in the matter following a recommendation made by the...

The Fort du Randouillet is located on a steep and narrow rocky mound, distinguished by its vast size spread over a slope of100 metres. The various buildings that make up this site were constructed to meet the requirements of military architecture of the time, and  to adapt to the constraints of the...

Reconstruction of the fixed bridge; restoration of the drawbridge, the mechanism, the gate and the vaulted passageway.

• Estimated surface area within the walled: 50 ha
• Number of inhabitants: 2 505 (INSEE census 2011)
• Administrators subscribed: commune of Saint- Martin-de-Ré, Department of Justice (citadel)
• Contracting party: Ernest Cognacq museum
• Contractor: Archi-Tact
• Implementation: July 2011