Blocked window, Keep, Chateau de Vincennes, Ile

A blocked window from the time the Keep or donjon was used as a prison, only letting daylight filter through a narrow slit, Chateau de Vincennes, Ile de France, France. This conversion of the windows was carried out on the first 3 floors. The Keep is 50m high, built 1337-73, the highest fortified medieval building in Europe. It has a square plan 16x16m with a square room on each floor with walls 3m thick, with a turret on each corner. The Chateau was originally built in 1150 as a hunting lodge for Louis VII, with a donjon added in the 14th century, walls in the 15th and further extended in the 17th century. It was an important royal palace until the 18th century. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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13427587

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45107403

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3760px x 3664px (4.1MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen