L'Enceinte Urbaine du Palais

Name: L'Enceinte Urbaine du Palais
Address: Le Palais, 56360, FRANCE

Historic site and monument, Fortified structure in Le Palais

Built largely under the First Empire, and completed under the Second Empire, it is the only remaining 19th-century urban wall in France. It is a continuous set of fortifications designed to prevent the city from being taken by an enemy coming from the countryside. The wall includes a glacis, a casemated counterscarp, a ditch crossed by caponiers, and a masonry escarpment with 3 bastions. It is crossed by 3 gates, including the Porte de Locmaria, the Porte Vauban and the Porte Bangor. Built... Read more
Built largely under the First Empire, and completed under the Second Empire, it is the only remaining 19th-century urban wall in France. It is a continuous set of fortifications designed to prevent the city from being taken by an enemy coming from the countryside. The wall includes a glacis, a casemated counterscarp, a ditch crossed by caponiers, and a masonry escarpment with 3 bastions. It is crossed by 3 gates, including the Porte de Locmaria, the Porte Vauban and the Porte Bangor. Built between 1803 and 1807, the Palais wall is "one of the finest examples of an urban wall designed and built under the First Empire that we have in France"... (Philippe Prost, historian of fortifications)

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