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L'Enceinte Urbaine du Palais
Historic site and monument, Fortified structure
in Le Palais
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Built largely under the First Empire, and completed under the Second Empire, the only vestige in France of an urban wall from the 19th century. It is a continuous set of fortifications designed to prevent the capture of the city by an enemy coming from the countryside. The enclosure includes a glacis, a casemated counterscarp, a ditch, crossed by caponiers, and a masonry scarp with 3 bastions. . It is crossed by 3 gates, including the Locmaria gate, the Vauban gate and the Bangor gate. Built...
Built largely under the First Empire, and completed under the Second Empire, the only vestige in France of an urban wall from the 19th century. It is a continuous set of fortifications designed to prevent the capture of the city by an enemy coming from the countryside. The enclosure includes a glacis, a casemated counterscarp, a ditch, crossed by caponiers, and a masonry scarp with 3 bastions. . It is crossed by 3 gates, including the Locmaria gate, the Vauban gate and the Bangor gate. Built between 1803 and 18077, the palace enclosure is "one of the most beautiful examples of an urban enclosure designed and built under the first empire we had in France "... (Philippe Prost, historian of fortifications)
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