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"Gorgeous City"
My short trip to this city had attracted me wanna to see more...
When see the La Citadelle, where famous with the lion monument, the Lion of Belfort, its a huge castle with so many tunnels.
"The City"
Belfort’s fortified old quarter, on the east bank of the Savoureuse, contains its castle and public buildings. In front of its 18th century hôtel de ville is the French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi's majestic 1880 statue, the "Lion of Belfort", that commemorates the town’s long siege during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to 1871.
It is made up of that part of the former province of Alsace which was retained by France between 1871-1919, which was also known as the "Territoire de Belfort". The territory was spared German annexation on the ground that people there were French-speaking, unlike those in the rest of Alsace.
