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So Castle-City-Old woman is today a commune formed by the meeting of the villages of Castle-Queyras, Villevieille and Montbardon, it is Castle-Queyras - and especially the fortified town of Strong Queyras - which will retain the interest of the curious one.
Overhanging right bank of Guil, Fort Queyras is drawn up still proudly on its vertiginous rocky outcrop. One easily imagines what this defensive position could have of strategic, ideal situation to lock the valley and to protect its inhabitants from the plunderers and other barbarians come from Provence.
Because, although often modified during centuries, the castle was built at the time medieval - 13th century and undoubtedly 11th for the primitive castle - by the Counts d' Albon, Masters and lords of Briançonnais: it was used a long time as prison to the gangsters… and to the marked women of sorcery or magic, before they are not considered and are burned!
Often besieged, it (in 1700) was strengthened much later by Vauban, with an aim of barring the valley of the Durance to the troops come from Piedmont: it could at that time accomodate to 3000 troops!
To see:
Fort-Queyras (visit 4 euros the entry)
Geological space
House of the Craft industry the Summit To rough-hew (2254 m):
a forest of larches, pastures
and a panorama with 360° on the high valleys of Queyras.
The hamlet of Shoes:
old houses drink queyrassines typically of it, fountains, canals irrigation, vault.
