| Standing on the border of Brittany and France, Fougères was of great military importance in the early Middle Ages. The town is built in a picturesque setting on a promontory overlooking the winding valley of the Nançon. Below it, on a rocky height almost entirely circled by the river, stands a magnificent feudal castle whose walls (with their thirteen big towers) are among the most massive and spectacular in Europe.
Writer Victor Hugo aptly said "I like to ask everyone "But have you seen
Fougères?"" |
