2024

THE REMARKS

Fortifications and ramparts to visit
4.4/5
8 reviews

It is located on a side staircase located in the turret of the special hotel La Scipione, it serves both floors and round road. The masonry is an exceptional point of view on the village and the plains of Du. You can't go full circle. Behind the ramparts, a lavogne - cobbled mare used as water to the sheep - in perfect conservation condition is visible.

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 La Couvertoirade, 12230
2024

CISTERCIAN FORT OF ST-JEAN D'ALCAS

Fortifications and ramparts to visit
5/5
1 review

The enclosure of the Saint-Jean-d'Alcas fort, 62.50 m long and 37 m wide, is framed by four corner towers. Here, point of Templar or hospitable origin, but the very real fears of the Hundred Years' War in front of the bands of truckers well established on the Larzac. And which no public authority can overcome. From then on, the abbess of the nearby Cistercian abbey of Nonenque authorized the inhabitants of several neighbouring places to build a fortified enclosure. In case of danger, the peasants of the surroundings and those of the village could take refuge there and save their herds.

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 Saint-Jean-Et-Saint-Paul, 12250
2024

NAJAC CASTLE

Fortifications and ramparts to visit
4.1/5
8 reviews
Castle appreciated for its history, its architecture, its preserved rooms ... Read more
 Najac, 12270