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A citadel located in Calais where you can see the moats and curtain walls, the Porte de Boulogne and the Porte de la Ville.
After the reconquest of Calais in 1558, the old medieval castle was razed to the ground, and a vast citadel better suited to the needs of warfare was built between 1560 and 1571, with the help of Vauban. After becoming Spanish from 1596 to 1598, the Citadelle served as the official residence of the governors until 1636. The center of the city's resistance during the German invasion of May 1940, it was forced to surrender after a 36-hour siege. You can still see the moats and curtain walls, the Porte de Boulogne and the Porte de la Ville or Porte de l'Hermitage!
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