©Citadelle de Lille
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The Citadelle de Lille, built by order of Louis XIV following his conquest of the city, was designed by Sébastien Leprestre, Marquis de Vauban. Construction lasted three years, from 1667 to 1670.
Originally, it was a small town surrounded by five bastions forming a star (a 2,200-meter circumvolution), for which sixty million bricks had to be baked, three million blocks of stone and seventy thousand feet of sandstone extracted from quarries. Established on the border with Flanders, it formed...
Originally, it was a small town surrounded by five bastions forming a star (a 2,200-meter circumvolution), for which sixty million bricks had to be baked, three million blocks of stone and seventy thousand feet of sandstone extracted from quarries. Established on the border with Flanders, it formed...
