Porte Prison
Place Brûlée 56000 Vannes
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.
Etiquetas
Villes et Pays d'art et d'histoire, Édifice militaire, enceinte urbaine
