Fortress of Salses

Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie · France

Fortress of Salses, France
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This low, thick-walled Spanish fortress from around 1500 was designed to absorb artillery fire with rounded bastions and deep moats. It guarded the historic frontier between the crowns of Aragon and France.

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