Another grey day ... we were ready for an alternative day. On the last rest day we had passed the fort of Marie Christine, on the road to Modane.We parked in the car park and wandered around the fort, which was closed.
We noticed another fort on the other side of the valley - Fort Victor Emmanuelle. This perked our interest, and we set about seeing if we could get over to it.
Crossing over a suspension bridge we walked up to this fort, which was open and we were able to wander around this spectacle of a Vauban fort.
From the redoubts we could see the first fort on the other side of the river.We also noticed a number of via ferrata routes, one even went out of the fort windows.
Behind this fort was an even earlier castle of the medieval period.
Back at the bridge we looked down into the gorge, and tried to pick out the via ferratas on the rock face rising up below the fort.