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The Commeire artillery works (military designation A 27) is a former Second World War fort built below the village of Commeire, in the municipality of Orsières, in the canton of Valais. It forms part of the Saint-Maurice fortress and was designed by the 10th Mountain Brigade to monitor the road over the Great St Bernard Pass. Built between 1940 and 1943, it was armed with four 7.5 cm guns: two, aimed towards the Great St Bernard, were camouflaged as a mazot (a traditional Alpine wooden granary), while the other two, facing Champex and the Orsières region, were concealed in rock. In the event of war, it could shelter around 140 men in its caverns. Disarmed as early as 1970 but kept as a mountain shelter by the army, it was demilitarised in 1999, then taken over in 2009 by the association Pro Forteresse, which maintains it and organises visits. It is today in the state in which the army left it, except for its guns.