En un regard
Le château en bref
The ramparts of Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts (Bouches-du-Rhône) enclose a village that appears to have emerged no earlier than the 12th century, at the centre of a network of ponds (the étang de Berre, the étangs de Citis and du Po). Around 1405, the Archbishop of Arles authorised the construction of ramparts around the town; the settlement then grew without interruption, with a marked expansion at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century. In the 19th century, part of the enclosure was demolished to open gates during the cholera epidemic of 1840, but the whole remains very homogeneous. Protected are the ramparts and their gates: the north gate known as the porte d'Istres, the porte des Esperettes, the south postern and the south gate known as the Martigues gate.