Besancon citadel wanderings

Bored to tears resting in my room so after a visit to the lab for blood tests I walked up the hill (very slowly) to the 17thC Citadel.
It has a history of being used to protect the town, to train soldiers, and a military prison. In WWII the Germans took it and used it as a prison and there is even the original posts used for the firing squad. About 100 resistance fighters died there..
It has a walking wheel to draw water from its 132m deep well.Læs mere