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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.
19 in Languedoc Roussillon.
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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 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 ...

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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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Castle, Fort in Villetelle

Site et musée archéologiques d'Ambrussum

Communauté de Communes du Pays de Lunel Chemin d'Ambrussum, Villetelle 34400 Villetelle (Hérault)
Phone : 04 67 02 22 33

Castle, Fort in Montpellier

Esplanade du Peyrou

Visite.org 34000 Montpellier (Hérault)
The city’s decline from the second half of the 14th Century seemed inexorable. The merchant oligarchy had increasing difficulty in running the "Republic of Montpellier" and a new urban elite of ...

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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