Fortifications of Vauban
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Location
Centre Region

Country
France

Year of Research
2008

Culture
    Fortifications of Vauban has a dozen groups of fortified buildings and sites along the western, northern and eastern borders of France.
    They explains the best examples of the work of SĂ©bastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707), a military engineer of King Louis XIV.
    The serial property contains towns constructed from scratch by Vauban, citadels, urban bastion walls and bastion towers. There are also mountain forts, sea forts, a mountain battery and two mountain communication structures.
    This property is engrave as bearing evidence to the peak of classic fortifications, typical of western military architecture. Vauban also played a major part in the history of fortification in Europe and on other continents until the mid-19th century.