Medieval journey: explore this fort and its exhibition: «What’s new in the Middle Ages?»

Name: Medieval journey: explore this fort and its exhibition: «What’s new in the Middle Ages?»
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Fort Saint-André

Throughout the weekend, come discover or rediscover for free the Fort Saint-André and its exhibition: «What’s new in the Middle Ages?».

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free of charge. Free admission.

©Geoffroy Mathieu / CMN

Throughout the weekend, come and discover or rediscover Fort Saint-André and its exhibition: «What’s new in the Middle Ages?».

Types d'événement

Visite libre

Thèmes 2023

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

About the location

Fort Saint-André

57A rue Montée du Fort, 30400 Villeneuve-Lez-Avignon

Gard
Occitanie

A strategic role: commissioned at the end of the thirteenth century by Philippe le Bel, the work is realized only in the years 1360 under John the Good, on the border with the Holy Roman Empire and near the residence of the popes in Avignon. A symbol of royal power: The fort had a permanent garrison, a court of justice and a prison retaining graffiti of prisoners of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Its strategic role was called into question after 1480, when Provence was attached to the Kingdom of France. Soldiers occupied the site until 1792.