Fort de Salses

The Fort de Salses (also called Forteresse de Salses) is a Catalan fortress in the commune of Salses-le-Château, situated in the French département of Pyrénées-Orientales.

[citation needed] Built by the Aragonese at the end of the 15th century, the fortress guarded the former frontier between Principality of Catalonia and France.

Its layout and architecture, innovative for the time, present a rare example of the transition between medieval castle and the fortresses of the modern period.

[2] Fort de Salses is listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture,[1] and is operated by the Centre des monuments nationaux.

[citation needed] During the Spanish Civil War, the fort was used as a refuge.