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In some minutes of Sauve and of Saint-Hippolyte of Fort
, please, discover the hamlet of Fressac, dominated by its medieval castle.
After a short ascent, you will discover a magnificent panorama, as well as a building in curious system of defence.
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Fressac's castle accommodated doubtless no Lord. Occupying an important strategic point, it(he) became apparently famous in no war. It was a castle of protection where the populations of the surroundings came to take refuge in case of attack.
In the XVIII-th century, during the war of Cevennes, certain testimonies let hear(understand) that camisards sheltered there and struck there currency, the others, than the populations found there refuge during the attack of Saves by the Protestants.
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It(he) consists :
- of a surrounding wall,
- A cistern,
- A ditch,
- Outside defences,
- A donjon,
- A mousetrap,
- 2 Barbacanes.
To make you to it of Fressac, please, turn to the left after the bridge. Please, park in the cemetery. The path allowing to gain(win) the castle leaves this place. In your arrival to the castle you will be inside ruins and in the middle of nowhere. Please be careful !
You can ask the office of Tourism of Safe for necessary document to know everything on this castle.
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