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Citadelle de Sisteron

France

Heritage status
monument historique inscrit · classified historical monument
Location
Sisteron
Coordinates
44.19889°, 5.94306°
Links
OpenStreetMap · Wikimedia Commons
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Citadelle de Sisteron in France
Photo: Régis Martel · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

At an altitude of 500 m, the citadel of Sisteron overlooks the town of Sisteron — located in a passage between the Dauphiné and Provence — and the Durance. Built on a rocky spur, it is the first thing one sees on arriving in the town. The citadel, with its fortifications, was a strategic lock on the road leading from the Alps to the Mediterranean. Listed as a historic monument, it is the centrepiece of the town. Jean Errard, military engineer of Henry IV, and then Vauban left their mark on it.

Machine-translated from “Citadelle de Sisteron” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Citadelle de Sisteron ranks #6,361 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #564 of the 954 mapped in France. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,271 times in the last 60 days, more than 62% of the atlas. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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