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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 ...
picture of Site et musée archéologiques d'Ambrussum
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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

Château de la Mogère

De Saporta 2235 route de Vauguières 34000 Montpellier (Hérault)
Phone : 04 67 65 72 01  - Fax : 04 67 65 72 01
The Mogere Castle was built in the 18 th century and refurbished in the 19 th with marvelous 18 th century furniture and garland gypsery. A stunning rockwork "buffet d'eau" adorns the gorgeous French ...

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 ...

Castle, Fort in Montpellier

La Place de la Comédie (Architecture du XIXème siècle)

Visite.org 34000 Montpellier (Hérault)
The Revolution of 1789 hardly affected the city’s administrative life. Only the textile industries suffered, but trade continued to prosper and public development works continued: the ramparts were ...

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 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 ...
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