Fort de Sainte-Marine
Coordinates: 47 ° 51 '50.4 " N , 4 ° 6' 54" W.
The Fort de Sainte-Marine , often just called Fort de Combrit , is a small fortress in French Sainte-Marine, a district of Combrit in the Finistère department in Brittany . At the behest of Napoleon III. In the early 1860s, the search for a suitable site for a small fortress to protect the coast of Combrit began. What was then built was a very modern fortress for the time, but it was only used for the military for 30 years. It then housed several families and was briefly leased to a youth hostel organization before the Second World War . During this war the fortress was confiscated by the German army and was used as a sailing school for several years after the war.
In 1990 the neglected fortress was sold by the French military to the Combrit community, which renovated it. Today the fortress is used for art exhibitions in summer.