Fort Lagarde
Fort Lagarde is a 17th century citadel overlooking the village of Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste (France, Pyrénées-Orientales department) just thirteen kilometres from the Spanish border. Apart from protecting the village, its purpose was to guard the Col d'Ares, a natural crossing point to Spain.
Capital of Haute-Vallespir, Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste became an important strategic site after 1659, the date of the Treaty of the Pyrenees which gave the former county of Roussillon to the French state. The village was fortified by the Marshal of Louis XIV of France, Sébastien Le Preste de Vauban, who also built Fort Lagarde.
Fort Lagarde was classified as a French Historical Monument in 1925.
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