Place forte de Mont-Dauphin

The stronghold of Mont-Dauphin, built by Vauban from 1693, is one of the 12 major Vauban sites inscribed in 2008 as UNESCO World Heritage.

Behind its pink marble ramparts, you will see the barracks where Louis XIV's soldiers lived, the turrets on the sheer drop where they kept watch, the powder magazine, the arsenal where they kept arms and powder. From the rampart, observe the strategic junction of valleys. See the Queyras mountains with their thousand hikes, the ski resorts of Vars and Risoul, the 4,000 m glaciers of the Écrins massif.

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