Fort de Romainville

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Le château en bref

Fort de Romainville is a military complex of 3 hectares built in the mid-nineteenth century as part of the fortifications designed to protect Paris. Built on what was then the commune of Romainville, to the east of the capital, it lay within the commune of Les Lilas when that commune was created in 1867. During the German Occupation, the fort served as an internment camp through which 7,000 people passed, most of them women. Now no longer used for military purposes, it is attached to the Avenir district. It houses the TDF Hertzian tower, known as the Romainville tower.