Fortress
Fort Carré
🇫🇷 France · 16th century
See Stade du Fort Carré for the sports stadium.
Fort Carré, often called the Fort Carré d'Antibes, is a 16th-century star-shaped fort of four arrow-head shaped bastions that stands on a 26-meter high promontory in Antibes, France. Henry II ordered construction of the fort in the 16th century at a time when Antibes was situated on a tense border with the Duchy of Savoy. During the 17th century, the Marquis de Vauban redeveloped it. The Fort was decommissioned in the early 20th century.
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Fort Carré ranks #1,947 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #141 of the 276 mapped in France. Founded 1553, it is older than 42% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 307 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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