En un regard
Le château en bref
The fortified enclosure of Bergues preserves the layers of several periods. The north curtain wall and the Guy de Dampierre tower, the oldest tower of the rampart, built in red brick, date from 1286, under the Counts of Flanders. The Nekerstor tower (water gate), the Bierne Gate and the curtain wall of rue Pierre Decroo date from 1418, in the Burgundian period. In 1585, under Spanish rule, the western front between the Cassel and Bierne gates was rebuilt as a bastioned fortification. Vauban built the Saint-Winoc crownwork from 1672 to 1692, which was completed by his successors with the Bierne (1720) and Hondschoote (1741) crownworks. The whole, comprising the enclosure with its buildings, bastions, ditches, half-moons and glacis, is listed as a monument historique by decree of 20 March 1936.