Chateau de Joux
Chateau de Joux
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About Chateau de Joux
Add to favoritesA sentinel of the Alps perched on a rocky spur overlooking the Pontarlier Gorge, the Château de Joux is a living history book of military architecture spanning 1,000 years. From the medieval tower to the fortifications of Vauban and Joffre, each era has left its mark. But Joux is also famous for its past as a state prison, having housed illustrious prisoners such as Mirabeau and Toussaint Louverture, the hero of Haitian independence. The visit is both physically demanding and spectacular. Visitors traverse five successive enclosures, descend into vertiginous moats, and discover a 147-meter-deep well, one of the deepest in Europe. The museum of antique weapons located in the keep is remarkable. The view of the Jura Mountains and the road to Switzerland is breathtaking. It is a powerful site, steeped in a history that is sometimes dark but always captivating.
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The Château de Joux, beyond its history and its thousand-year-old architecture, is a place of memory in more ways than one: Memory of the abolition of slavery and the struggle for freedoms, for having been the place of detention and the last residence of Toussaint Louverture, former slave who became general of the French army and governor of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti); Memory of conflicts and borders, for having been besieged several times; Memory of an oral tradition of tales and legends that its imposing stature and its mysteries have helped to forge.
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