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Key points:
2h15 – 4.7 km
Start Point: Amélie-les-bains-palalda
course: easy
D+: 282m
"A manor house": this is how Vauban disdainfully described Fort d'Amélie... Too modest for his creative genius? The fact remains that he only made a few modifications to the plan drawn up by the engineer St Hilaire. Following the revolts against the Gabelle tax and the guerrilla actions commanded by the leader of the Miquelets, Joseph de la Trinxeria, General de Chamilly ordered the construction of a fort in 1670 to house a company detached from the Perpignan garrison.
