The Château Royal de Collioure is a massive French royal castle in the town of Collioure, a few kilometers north of the Span ...
The Château de Vincennes is a massive 14th and 17th century French royal castle in the town of Vincennes in a suburb of Pari ...
Château de Kaysersberg was built for Albin Woelflin, imperial bailiff for Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, around 1220. The ...
Château de Azay-le-Rideau was built from 1515 to 1527 and it is one of the earliest French Renaissance châteaux. Built on a ...
Porte Saint-Pierre is the best preserved remnant of the former battlements of the medieval city. It was originally built alre ...
The Château de Chaumont was founded in the 10th century by Odo I, Count of Blois. The purpose was to protect his lands from ...
The Grosse Horloge of La Rochelle is a former city gate dating back to the original fortifications known as Guillaume X. It r ...
The Château d"If is a fortress located on the Île d"If, the smallest island in the Frioul archipelago, situated a ...
Built from 1306 during the village fortification by the Comte de Savoie Amédée V, Yvoire castle had a military goal to wa ...
The Donjon Lacataye is the keep of a 14th-century castle, constructed by order of Gaston Phébus in the commune of Mo ...
Built by Vauban between 1667 and 1672, the purpose of Citadel of Arras was to protect the city from the attacks (Spanish troo ...
As a result of being a coastal town and needing to protect itself from attack, St Tropez became well-fortified early on in it ...
The Château de Pierrefonds includes most of the characteristics of defensive military architecture from the Middle Ages, ...
Philippe Hurault built the château between 1624 and 1630, to designs by the sculptor-architect of Blois, Jacques Bougie ...
The Château de Flers is located in Villeneuve d'Ascq, in the Nord department of France. The château, completed in 1661, i ...
In the third century AD, the city of Vannes, called Darioritum, acquires the right to fortify. Thus, west of the Gallo-Roman ...
The Cháteau d'Angers is a castle founded in the 9th century by the Counts of Anjou. It was expanded to its current size in t ...
The Duchy of Uzès castle is built on an old Roman Castrum (camp) which became the residence of the Governor in the fir ...
The Palace of Justice in Poitiers was the seat of the Counts of Poitou and Dukes of Aquitaine in the 10-12th centuries. The f ...
Château de Chinon was founded by Theobald I, Count of Blois. In the 11th century the castle became the property of the count ...