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Piste de la Repentance, Porquerolles, France

Fort de la Repentance Tickets & Tours

The Fort de la Repentance is a French military structure located on the Island of Porquerolles (Var). It was built in the XIX century and today is transformed into an Orthodox monastery.

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In 1859 Commander Millot, chief of the Engineer battalion, reported that "The possession of the islands of Porquerolles and Port-Cros is indispensable to the enemy for the peaceful occupation of the two rades and for the establishment of its deportations, stores and hospitals. The works created or to be created must be able to oppose a landing on these islands and on the peninsula". Also, in 1874 the specialized commission of the Coastal Defense Committee, created in 1872 and chaired by General Séré de Rivières, proposed to build a fort on the island of Porquerolles. Clearing and clearing the ground of Repentance began in 1880.

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