The prohibitions of fortifications. From doors to towers...

Name: The prohibitions of fortifications. From doors to towers...
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Porte Prison

Vannes managed to keep three-quarters of its fortifications, despite the destruction carried out in the 19th century. The circuit opens doors usually closed to the public.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Number of visitors limited to 25 people.

Registration

02 97 01 64 00

Ville de Vannes

Vannes managed to keep three-quarters of its fortifications, despite the destruction carried out in the 19th century. It is one of the best preserved towns in Brittany. Porte Prison, courtine Joliette, tour du Connétable, front de Calmont, bastion de Gréguennic, the circuit opens doors usually closed to the public.
Saturday 17 and Sunday 18: 3 visits departures, at 10am, 11am and 12pm
In night time on Saturday with 3 departures of visit, at 20h, 21h and 22h
RDV Place Brûlée
Information: 02 97 01 64 00

About the location

Porte Prison

Place Brûlée 56000 Vannes

Morbihan
Bretagne

Surrounding wall(Speaker) of irregular shape flanked(thrown) by tours(towers,ballots) and by bastions with carriage entrances and pedestrians and curtain endowed with machicoulis. The first surrounding wall(speaker) is from triangular shape and from a 980 metre perimetre(scope) about. It covers a five hectare area on a rocky headland surrounded at the origin of marshes. Several segments of this ancient castrum remain(subsist) even today in private gardens and near(about) the tower Joliette, the street Francis Decker. The walls of this castrum present a device made by an alternation of small stones and of rows of brick. This wall had to contain a number of tours(ballots) and defensive doors which disappeared, replaced with tours(towers,ballots) and existent bastions which date posterior arrangements(developments) in the extension of the surrounding wall(speaker) begun(undertaken) southward. The different facing observed by tours(towers,ballots) and curtains of the new surrounding wall(speaker) manifests stops(rulings) and occasions of its construction. The new surrounding wall(speaker) which carries the area of the city " intra muros " to ten hectares also included some defensive works called high barbicans at that time with a view to protecting doors particularly exposed(explained) to the enemy and returned more vulnerable to progress of the artillery on fire(light). Facing the latter(these last), the new towers see the appearance of new devices(plans) of artillery on fire(light), at the same time, that doors provided at the origin of simple harrows with counterweight, acquire drawbridge with arrows.