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Le château en bref
Overlooking the Tinée valley at Rimplas, the Frassinéa (or Fressinéa) fortification is a small work of the Maginot Line in the Alps, linked to the large Rimplas fortification and built at an altitude of about 482 m to watch over the road towards Nice. Constructed from 1930 onwards, it comprises three blocks (entrance, observation, infantry) fitted with machine-gun embrasures, including a twin heavy machine-gun and a mixed embrasure with a 47 mm anti-tank gun. It took no part in the fighting of June 1940, as the Italians had not broken through the forward outposts. It remained in army service until 1970, when it was sold to the commune of Rimplas and maintained by the association Les Amis de l'ouvrage Maginot de la Frassinéa, which runs guided visits and received the Prix Vauban 2022 for its museography.