Fort du Portalet

metropolitan France · France

Fort du Portalet, France
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Clinging to a cliff face in a narrow Pyrenean gorge, this nineteenth century fort guarded the road toward the Spanish border. Its galleries were hewn from the rock to command the pass of Somport.

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