European Heritage Days at Fort l’Écluse

The last frontier between Switzerland and the Pays de Gex, Fort l’Écluse has had a long and eventful history, with its staircase of more than a thousand steps cut into the mountain.

For the European Heritage Days, the Brigade ran the weekend there with its workshops on peasant life, hygiene, printing, philosophy and military and civilian costume, and a demonstration of the Chappe telegraph in the fortress courtyard.