Bastille

The Bastille is a fortress culminating at 476 m (1,561ft) above sea level, located at the south end of the Chartreuse mountain range and overlooking the city of Grenoble, France. The Bastille, which also gives its name to the hill, is the main tourist site of the Grenoble area, with 600,000 visitors per year.

Text adapted from “Bastille (Grenoble)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Bastille ranks #2,154 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #157 of the 276 mapped in France. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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