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Fort Pernante is an Italian fortified battery built in 1883, under a contract signed on 10 July 1883 with the contractor Giuseppe Maggia, at an altitude of between 2,017 and 2,115 metres depending on the sources, at the Col de Tende. It is one of the five satellite batteries of the Fort de Colle Alto, intended to seal off the Col de Tende and prevent any advance by French troops towards the Roya valley. Designed to accommodate about 150 men, it was armed with four artillery sections of calibre 12 pieces. Connected by telephone and telegraph to the rest of the defensive system in October 1892, the fort was subsequently disarmed and then abandoned during the First World War. It has a trapezoidal plan with three fronts of attack and a gorge front, built of local limestone, schist and granite. The complex includes casemates with segmental barrel vaults, an entrance reached by a single-arch bridge, eight monolithic gargoyles around the perimeter and underground galleries serving the ammunition stores. Now in a poor state of preservation, the site notably retains the ruins of its entrance.
