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The Château d'If (close up) The Château d'If with Marseille in the background. The Château d'If (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto dif]) is a fortress located on the Île d'If, the smallest island in the Frioul archipelago, situated about 1.5 kilometres (7 ⁄ 8 mile) offshore from Marseille in southeastern France. Built in the 16th century, it ...
Château d'If: 1524-31 Ruins On an island in the Bay of Marseille, used as prison, featured in The Count of Monte Cristo. Château de Ners: 12th century Ruins Château de Tarascon: 15th century Intact Converted into a military prison in the 17th century. [1] Château de Vernègues: Medieval Ruins Property of the commune
Château d'If in Marseille Château de Tarascon in Tarascon. Château de la Barben, in La Barben; Château de Barbentane in Barbentane; Château des Baux, in Baux-de-Provence; Château de Boulbon, in Boulbon; Château de la Buzine, in Marseille; Chateau de Bruni in Berre-l'Étang; Château des Creissauds, in Aubagne; Château de l'Empéri, in ...
The French word château has a wider meaning than the English castle: it includes architectural entities that are properly called palaces, mansions or vineyards in English. This list focuses primarily on architectural entities that may be properly termed castle or fortress ( French : château-fort ), and excludes entities not built around a ...
The Chateau d'If was finished in 1531, while Notre-Dame de la Garde was not completed until 1536, when it was used to help repel the troops of Charles Quint. It was built using stone from Cap Couronne, as well as materials from buildings outside the ramparts of the demolished city to keep them from providing shelter to enemy troops. [11]
Before he can marry his fiancée Mercédès, Edmond Dantès, a French nineteen-year-old first mate of the merchant ship Pharaon, is falsely accused of treason, arrested, and imprisoned without trial in the Château d'If, a grim island fortress off Marseille. A fellow prisoner, Abbé Faria, correctly deduces that romantic rival Fernand Mondego ...
The Jardin des Vestiges in Marseille, with remains of the ancient Phocaean port city of Massalia, discovered in 1967 during construction work.. Remains of a prehistoric settlement dating to between 27,000 and 19,000 BC were found by divers in 1991 at the Cosquer Cave, an underwater cave in a calanque on the coast near Marseille.
In 1692, he was captured by a French privateer near Jamaica, and for being a fugitive Protestant, was first sentenced to a life sentence as a galley slave, imprisoned in a castle dungeon in Marseille for two years, [1] [2] and then transferred to the Château d'If off the coast of Marseille for 50 days. [3]