France: 12 of Vauban fortifications in the World Heritage
Three centuries after his death, Unesco case, paid tribute must be a recognition architect Vauban (1633-1707), servant of Louis XIV and approved construction of military genius of his time. Twelve sites fortified he designed, among the more than 170 France designed to protect the homeland from external attacks, have been recognized as a World Heritage Site to protect and safeguard.
Turn the page definitively of the great medieval castles, between 1679 and 1688 Sébastien Le Prestre, marquis de Vauban, France travels to oversee the construction of numerous towns, especially in the south and the coast, reinventing the military architecture without applying models preconceived but adapting it to the territories to defend, creating systems fortified amending town planning and also the aesthetics of the post-Renaissance.
The sites designed by Vauban were included among those of UNESCO because they have an exceptional and universal value, represent a masterpiece produced by human genius, witnessed the evolution of military and illustrate an important period of history.