The Tour Vauban (Vauban Tower), initially known as the tour de Camaret, is an 18m-high polygonal defensive tower built to a p ...
Château de Châteaudun was built between the 12th and 16th centuries. The Count of Blois Thibaut V had the keep bu ...
Château de Vaison-la-Romaine was originally a wooden tower erected in 1185 to assert the power of Raymond VI, Count of Toulo ...
The Château de Gien was built in the 15th century for Anne of France. Guests included King Francis I of France, King Henry ...
Built on the site of the former fortified château of the kings of Navarre, the Citadel looks over the walled town of Saint- ...
Simiane-la-Rotonde has remained practically unchanged for centuries. On the hilltop stands the truncated cone-shaped edifice ...
Château de Noirmoutier is very well preserved and a fine example of 12th century medieval architecture. The first traces of ...
Château de Sainte-Suzanne was a property of the lords of Beaumont, viscounts of Maine, and was built in the 11th century. Th ...
The Château de Maintenon is best known as being the private residence of the second spouse of Louis XIV, Madame de Main ...
Sitting in the highest point of Petit Bayonne you will find the Château-Neuf (“new castle”) built in the 15th century ...
The Tour Magne, or the Great Tower, is the only remnant of the ancient Augustan fortifications. Standing at the highest point ...
Porte de la Craffe is the oldest fortification in Nancy, built in the 14th and 15th centuries and later became a prison until ...
Château de Malbrouck lies in the Moselle department of France, near the border with Germany and Luxembourg. In 1419 Arnold ...
The Château de Brest is one of the largest roadsteads (sheltered area outside a harbor) in the world. From the Roman castell ...
The Château du Girsberg is one of three castles (with the Château de Saint-Ulrich and the Haut-Ribeaupierre) which overlook ...
Château d'Hyères was one of the largest castles in Provence. The first mention of the castle dates from 1062. In 1524 ...
Forteresse de Salses was built between 1497 and 1504, at the order of Ferdinand II of Aragon. It was designed by engineer Fra ...
The Château d'Écouen was built between 1538 and 1550 by the architect Jean Bullant for Anne de Montmorency, who was made Co ...
A small town in the heart of Corsica, Corte was the capital of the island (from 1755-1769 under Pasquale Paoli). Jutting out ...
The 'Vauban Fortress' of Foras was initially a strategic fortification established by Philip the Fair, circa 1300. ...