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Château d’If

A prison from a novel stands on a real island

History · 🇫🇷 Marseille · one place, one stop

Château d’If, Marseille+35 pts
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Built on a rocky island in the 16th century, this fortress later became a state prison. Alexandre Dumas used it as the prison of Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo, but Dantès was fictional.

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