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Icône représentant : ruralcol de Vars

More informationVillage of Vars
The Vars pass is one of the emblematic mountain passes of the Southern Alps. It is the crossing point between the Ubaye and Embrun valleys and culminates at 2108 meters. If it used to be famed for its Refuge, it is now more well known as a gruelling Tour de France climb.

Icône représentant : ruralA Mountain Lighthouse

More informationVillage of Vars
The Napoleon Refuge was built with a donation from Napoleon Bonaparte’s will. He bequeathed a sum of money to the provinces that suffered most during the various Napoleonic wars. The refuge was built near Vars in 1856 under Napoleon III.

Icône représentant : ruralThe Plantation

More informationVillage of Mont-Dauphin
Some of the houses planned for the fortress of Mont-Dauphin were never built. The development of the fortress slowed sharply in the eighteenth century when the border with Italy was redrawn much further away in 1713.

Icône représentant : ruralA historic garden

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The Mont-Dauphin fortress was designed in 1693. Civilians built homes, while barracks and other military buildings rose to house officers and soldiers, and store artillery, weapons, ammunition, food and water. The fortress does not have enough land to grow the food soldiers and residents needed. Mont-Dauphin was dependent on neighbouring farms.

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