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Heritage, visit, Castle, Fort in Languedoc Roussillon

    Castles and Monuments
    Castles are historic heights-places, they allow to dive back into the universe of the Lords who lived there. Some of these monuments, as fortresses, symbol of power and power, are often marked by the wars of the Middle Ages. Others, as the castles of sailing are much more stylized and testify of the refinement of the Renaissance.
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Castle, Fort in Mont-Louis

Citadelle de Mont-Louis

Office du tourisme 3 rue Pruneta 66210 Mont-Louis (Pyrénées Orientales)
Phone : 04 68 04 21 97  - Fax : 04 68 04 21 97
Mont-Louis, one of Vauban's majors places (in way to be classificated by Unesco). The hightest fortificated city in France.
Exceptional example of military architecture créated by Vauban in 17th ...

Castle, Fort in Nîmes

La Maison Carrée

Visite.org 30000 Nîmes (Gard)
Inspired by the temples of Apollo and Mars Ultor in Rome, the Maison Carrée has extremely harmonious proportions. It is the only temple of the antique world that has survived whole and is 26 metres ...

Castle, Fort in Capestang

Le château de l'archevêque de Narbonne

Capestang Boulevard Pasteur 34310 Capestang (Hérault)
Phone : 04 67 37 85 29
Welcome to Capestang ! You will discover the summer residence of the Archbishop of Narbonne. The castle is famous for the painted ceiling dating from the fifteenth century, you can see on the buget ...
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Castle, Fort in Salses-le-Château

Forteresse de Salses

Visite.org 66600 Salses-le-Château (Pyrénées Orientales)
This fortress was built between 1497 and 1504 on the order of Ferdinand the Catholic, King of Aragon, to keep France out of the Roussillon region. It was intended to replace the square castle with 27 ...

Castle, Fort in Nîmes

La Tour Magne

Visite.org 30000 Nîmes (Gard)
It was built around an Iron Age drystone tower, of which nothing is left today. A regular octagon, in about 15 BC it had three stepped-back levels on a base. The top level no longer exists and the ...

Castle, Fort in Portes

Château de Portes

Renaissance du Château de Portes 3 rue de la Mairie 30530 Portes (Gard)
Phone : 04 66 54 92 05
Erected in the XIth century to protect the Regordane way (today the GR 700), the Château de Portes is a combination of a medieval fortress and a renaissance bastion. It is an unique architectural ...
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Castle, Fort in Sommières

Château de Sommières

Emilie Sieso Hôtel de ville - Service patrimoine - 27 quai Gaussorgues BP 72002 - 30250 Sommières 30250 Sommières (Gard)
Phone : 04 66 51 19 71

Castle, Fort in Aigues-Mortes

Remparts d'Aigues-Mortes

Visite.org 30220 Aigues-Mortes (Gard)
On the swampy grounds of the Camargue stands the fortress of Aigues-Mortes, which was built ex nihilo by Saint Louis in the 13th century, in order to provide the kingdom of France with a port by the ...
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