Balade Vauban

Walk Vauban ..

The application "Walk Vauban" should provide a better understanding of how Vauban designed the protection of the city of Besançon, including reconstitution of the now extinct elements.

On 7 July 2008, the Vauban fortifications were inscribed on the World Heritage List of Unesco under the Network of Major Vauban Sites. These sites represent the most genuine accomplishments and the best preserved of this builder that marked his work by the military architecture of the eighteenth century. Vauban's accomplishments served as models in the world until the nineteenth century. In Besançon, Vauban made the most of the natural defense features that present the site with a powerful citadel, the fortifications of the walls of the loop and that of the belt Beating.

This application offers you to discover all the devices designed by Vauban to protect Besançon, as they existed at the end of the seventeenth century after a project that lasted over twenty years.

The modernization of the city leads to the disappearance of several devices that 3D imaging can reconstruct as accurately as possible, given the current state of historical knowledge.

This program was developed by the company Worldplas the initiative of the Greater Besançon. Images restoring Vauban fortifications were made by the Company Legacy Virtual Besancon. The sounds and music were produced by Radio Campus Besançon. The texts have been made by the City of Besançon - Historical Heritage Directorate.