Projects

The citadel of Besançon, through political will, is a registered site for Community Service and has accepted young offenders on placement for over 20 years now.

Every month, an offender works at the Citadel thus benefiting society through reparation measures.

The town of Besançon, the Citadel and the 19th Engineering Regiment have forged and maintained strong ties for many years. 20 years ago, on 8 June 1991, they signed a twinning agreement. Thus, in view of the testimonies and links of friendship that have always existed between the local inhabitants...

A unique, natural setting

Besançon enjoys a rare and distinctive geographical setting with a chain of hills along the

RiverDoubsthat are part of the last anticlinal fold of the western limit of the Jura mountain range.

The strategic importance of the site was noticed at an early date. The...

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...

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...

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...

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...