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Taillefer Battery

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Location: Collioure, Céret, Occitania, France

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2. Tour Madeloc – View of the Côte Vermeille loop from Le Faubourg

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3. Madeloc Tower – View of the Côte Vermeille loop from Collioure

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1967Bike-Didi

July 24, 2021

The defense system was carried out between 1883 and 1886 outside the coastal system and was intended to reinforce fortifications built to protect Port-Vendres, which became a military port in 1846.
These achievements visible today are:
The Battery 500 (altitude 500m) above the Col des Gascons in a steep position, with a direct view of the Col de Banyuls.
The Taillefer Battery guards the Ravaner Valley
Battery La Galline (height 250 m) above Cosprons and able to hit the railroad and the road connecting Banyuls to Port-Vendres. It was intended for 4 artillery pieces and 70 men.
The left barracks
The real barracks under Taillefer
The barracks of the center on the route des crêtes
The restoration and elevation of the Madeloc Tower to make it a fortified observation site.
The creation of a strategic road connecting all the factories to each other and to Fort Dugommier and Port-Vendres.
All these defenses are never used.

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September 16, 2019

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