This is still from the Monday when I arrived! :) it was a very busy day for me haha 3 posts for 1 day!! Anyways this is the citadel of Montmédy. In 1221 the first castle of Montmédy was built on top of a hill by the Count of Chiny. Montmédy soon became the capital of his territory – later it belonged to Luxembourg, Burgundy, Austria and Spain. The original castle was replaced with a fortress by Karl V in the 16th Century. In 1657 30,000 soldiers, including King Louis XIV, attacked Montmédy, and only 756 were defending it. They still held it for 57 days and surrendered only after the death of the governor Jean V of Allamont. The location is really great and after the siege of 1657 they advanced the outer fortifications, the moats and the walls. The citadel has also been used as a fortress during both World Wars! It was really neat to be somewhere with so much history.
It's way up there at the top!! Beautiful, huh?
The citadel of Montmedy!
People still live in the little town.
These are some old fronts of buildings. The buildings where bombed in WW2
A tunnel that we walked down.
It just kept going!
We just went up the the window though.
Yeah, it was beautiful.
It was even better in person.
I wish I could take better pictures!
It was really nice to walk around the town.
The little village was pretty!
This was my favorite house!
They had a stop light for this tunnel!
They had little bridges that were a bit scary but I figure if they're that old they're not gonna break now :/
It was so pretty!
It was a great day! And Luc made me fries in the evening, YUM!!
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