Walls of Grignan

The Grignan defensive wall is located in the beautiful provencal village in the Drome region. This area is notable for its Renaissance-style castle, where the famous Marquise de Sevigne lived and died in the late seventeenth century. The eleventh century village was built around the castle, and was fortified in the twelfth century. It was greatly expanded in the thirteenth century, with the installation of Adhemar de Grignan family. The new wall is supported on top of twelve defensive towers. The village extends to the current limits of the old town, with the exception of small villages that have developed outside the fortified city from the sixteenth century.