Fort l'Ecluse

Fort l'Ecluse

The elevated Fort l'Écluse (or Fort de l'Écluse) is close to the village of Collonges, Ain and commands the Rhone valley a natural entrance into France through the Vauche hills (between the Jura mountains and the Alps).

The fort was founded by a Duke of Savoy, and completed by Vauban in tlhe reign of Louis XIV. It was destroyed by the Austrians in 1814, but ten years later was rebuilt by the French, and at the same time considerably strengthened and heightened; the subterranean staircase consists of 1000 steps. The high-road intersects a portion of this fortification. [ Karl Baedeker. "Switzerland: With the Neighboring Lakes of Northern Italy, Savoy, and the Adjacent Districts of Piedmont, Lombardy and the Tyrol, Handbook for Travellers", Karl Baedeker (Firm), 1863. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FWzgCYtW0_gC&pg=PA251&source=web&ots=6j8QMLpWND&sig=gJ7lBjyAdROYA__l80IEGdC7K2Y&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result p. 251] ] [ [http://www.la-dependance.co.uk/3.html Collonges Fort L'Ecluse] . Retrieved 18 August 2008.] [ [http://www.lesitedefortlecluse.org Fort L'Ecluse] , Retrieved 18 August 2008.] [ [http://www.flickr.com/photos/92852446@N00/2206361715/ Fort l'écluse] , Uploaded on January 20, 2008 ] [ [http://www.pays-de-gex.org/uk/lieux/musee.htm Inheritance museums and monuments: Fort l'Ecluse] . Retrieved 18 August 2008.]

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