GREAT FORTRESS
NEW AJTRACTION RUINS OF HISTORIC. OLD . GERMAN CASTLE EXCAYATED. ! A new attraction has been added to the district around the small German city of Traben-Trarbach, noted for its Moselle wines, by a year and a half ' of excavations of the ruins of the j great "Montroyal" fortress. "Mont- \ royal" was built in the years 1686 | to 1692 under Louis XIV, by Vauban, j | the noted French military architect, ' jwas was the strongest fortress of its I day. A great part of the inrns has ' been laid bare with the help of 2500 volunteer workers. Especially impos- 1 ing are the vast vaulted cellars, nine passage walls and buttresses. Be- i tv/een the portions of the fortress al- ! ready laid bare walls and trenches extend for miles. In the eourse of the nearly two and a half centuries in- ' teresting stalactites have formed themselves, such as one finds in. natural caves. .
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 73, 17 November 1931, Page 2
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