Founded by Saint Louis in 1240, to trade with Italy, the Orient and set off for the Crusades, Aigues-Mortes is the first port on the Mediterranean of the kingdom of France. Built on a marshy site, victim of silting, the city loses its strategic interest in 1481, when Provence is attached to the kingdom. When the Edict of Nantes was revoked in 1685, the ramparts housed in their towers, including that of Constance, the largest prison of the Ancien Régime for Protestants. Focusing on the theme of water, the François Schneider Foundation has, since 2011, constituted a singular collection of contemporary works questioning the aquatic subject under different prisms. To extend the roaming of the Foundation’s collection, the ramparts of Aigues-Mortes invite the Foundation to create a poetic journey through the 15 towers of the monument, linked to the history of the port city. This walk, along the towers and ramparts will present generative drawing, blown glass abysses, piece of ocean, imaginar
Website
http://www.aigues-mortes-monuments.fr
Phone
04 66 53 61 55

Address
Place Anatole France, 30220 Aigues-Mortes, Gard, Occitanie, France