Salses Fortress
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Fortress in Salses-le-Château, France
The Fort de Salses is a Catalan fortress in the commune of Salses-le-Château, situated in the French département of Pyrénées-Orientales.
Address: Le Portichol, 66600 Salses-le-Château, France
Hours: Closed ⋅ Opens 10 AM
Phone: +33 4 68 38 60 13
The Fort de Salses is a Catalan fortress in the commune of Salses-le-Château, situated in the French département of Pyrénées-Orientales.
They decided to build a fortress to protect the strategic border crossing between the kingdoms of France and Spain. At the time, the boundary between the two ...
Visit an imposing 16th-century fortress set between the Salses lakes and the Corbières mountains.
Salses Fort (also called Forteresse de Salses) is a Catalan fortress in the département of Pyrénées-Orientales, France. Built by the Catalans at the end of the ...
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Salses fortress was built between 1497 and 1504 by the Spaniards to protect their northern province of Roussillon which was finally conquered by France in 1642.
The Fort de Salses is a fortress in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of southern France, in the village of Salses-le-Château, to the south-west of Leucate ...
The ancient Spanish fortress at Salses safeguarded the nation's northern border as a formidable barrier to French expansion.
The fortress of Salses is a unique monument located on the border of France and Spain, at the crossroads between two eras, the Middle Ages and the modern era.
Jun 6, 2023 · Built between 1497 and 1503 at the command of Ferdinand II of Aragon, it has now been at Salses-le-Château for several centuries.
Go and discover the fortress of Salses, the guardian of Catalonia. This surprising castle is a beautiful piece of Spanish military architecture.
