Relief maps

2011-03-06
img_3401 Mont-Saint-Michel (Normandy).
Mont-Saint-Michel (Normandy).
img_3413 Fort Saint-Nicolas in Marseilles.
Fort Saint-Nicolas in Marseilles.
img_3398 Creating relief maps started in the 16th century and became fashionable under Louis XIV (17th-18th centuries). They were used to monitor or plan fortification...
Creating relief maps started in the 16th century and became fashionable under Louis XIV (17th-18th centuries). They were used to monitor or plan fortification…
img_3406 Villefranche-de-Conflent, in the Pyrenees. The fortifications have not changed in the past 350 years.
Villefranche-de-Conflent, in the Pyrenees. The fortifications have not changed in the past 350 years.
img_3410 If castle, off Marseilles. This is where the Count of Monte-Cristo was jailed in Alexandre Dumas' famous novel.
If castle, off Marseilles. This is where the Count of Monte-Cristo was jailed in Alexandre Dumas' famous novel.
img_3404 Belle-Ile, in Brittany.
Belle-Ile, in Brittany.

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