Fort du Sapey

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Le château en bref

The Fort du Sapey, later renamed the Ouvrage du Sapey, is an Alpine fortification located on the boundary between the communes of Saint-André and Modane, in the Savoie department. It was built just below the summit of the Sapey (which is occupied by the Redoute du Sapey, at 1,755 metres above sea level), at 1,740 metres, overlooking the Fort du Replaton and the Maurienne valley and controlling the exit of the Fréjus tunnel, the Mont Cenis pass and the Arc valley. The summit was fortified in several stages: first in 1885–1891, with the construction of a Séré de Rivières fort, which was then modernised in 1913–1916 (construction of the battery under concrete and rock), and again in the 1930s, in the form of an artillery work as part of the Maginot Line.