Belfort Citadel

The Belfort Gap was viewed as a chink in eastern France's covering for very nearly a 1,000 years and has been intensely sustained since the thirteenth century.But in the seventeenth century these resistances were modernized for big guns, first by the Comte de Suze and after that the acclaimed military driving force, Vauban.He assembled a moment divider for the city, with a detailed arrangement of hornworks and trench that was advanced to the point that it effectively withstood an attack in 1815, over a century after its development.It denotes the separation between the seepage basin of the Rhine River in the east and that of the Rhone in the west, some portion of the European watershed between the North sea and the Meditterranean ocean.