Guided tour of La Ferté

Name: Guided tour of La Ferté
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Ouvrage de La Ferté - Ligne Maginot

Enjoy a guided tour, to discover the history and operation of a work of the line Maginot, French fortification of the Second World War.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

4€ adults; free under 18 years. Reservations recommended - limited places. Visit of 2h. Good shoes and jackets recommended: 12°C and puddles of water in the underground gallery.

©Maxime Dupont

Enjoy a guided tour, to discover the history and operation of a work of the line Maginot, French fortification of the Second World War.

Descend 25 meters underground and discover the unknown history of the soldiers of the Maginot line. A fortification built in the late 1930s, La Ferté was attacked by the Germans in May 1940. After four days of fighting, he was put out of action and the entire garrison - a hundred French soldiers - perished. Many objects, equipment, weapons or war stigmas remain.
Departures at 10am, 2pm and 4pm on Saturdays; at 10am, 2pm, 3pm and 4pm on Sundays.

About the location

Ouvrage de La Ferté - Ligne Maginot

Fort de Villy-La-Ferté, 08370 La Ferté-sur Chiers

Ardennes
Grand Est

The work of Ferté, sometimes nicknamed site of Villy-La Ferté, is a fortress of the Maginot line, located in the sector strengthened by Montmédy. It lives(remains) unfortunately famous to have been the only work of the "Wall of France" where the whole garrison perishes, suffocated.