Heritage Days 2024: visit and activities at the Fort de Cormeilles-en-Parisis (95)

As part of the Journées du Patrimoine 2024 (Heritage Days 2024), the Fort de Cormeilles-en-Parisis is offering a wide range of activities all day on Sunday, September 22, 2024. We're off to the Val-d'Oise to take the time to rediscover a forgotten heritage, in a World War II atmosphere.

Thanks to the local association Les Amis du Fort, the former military fort of Cormeilles opens its doors to the public every 1st Sunday of the month. The fort, built between 1874 and 1877, was intended to be a key element in the defense of the capital, and was equipped with 64 cannons. In 1914, the fort was the first to be equipped with an anti-aircraft battery, capable of shooting down the zeppelins that came to bomb Paris.

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Disused by the army in the 1970s, it now houses a military museum, and this year sees the inauguration of a new Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires . The 2024 Heritage Days are the ideal time to discover the fort, as in addition to guided and self-guided tours, there are plenty ofactivities for the whole family. Take part in guided tours of the fort and its museums: discover its history, the folk art and traditions that surround it, the forge and the bakery. In short, you're in for a real treat!

The 2024 Heritage Days program at the Fort de Cormeilles-en-Parisis :

• Visit the Fort
  Sunday, September 22, 9 a.m.
  

  An emblematic site of the Fondation de Patrimoine 2020.
  Work in progress, tours of the fort accompanied by a guide from the Friends of the Fort. Restored frescoes along the tour route. Tour lasts approx. 1h30.

  
  
  
• Guided tour of the fort at Cormeilles-en-Parisis
  Sunday, September 22, 9 a.m.
  

  Guided tour of the fort at Cormeilles-en-Parisis by a guide from the Friends of the Fort.
  During the tour you can admire the restored frescoes in the gunpowder magazine.

  
  
  
• Activities for young people to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of France
  Sunday, September 22, 9 a.m.
  

  Activities for young people on the theme of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation, in period costume.

  
  
  
• Visits to the Fort's museums
  Sunday, September 22, 9 a.m.
  

  Traditional museum of the fort from 1870 to the present day.
  Museum of arts and traditions.
  Museum of conscripts & models on the 80th anniversary of the liberation.

  
  
  
• Putting the bread ovens at Cormeilles Fort into operation
  Sunday, September 22, 10:00 a.m.
  

  Preparation of loaves of bread and pains au chocolat baked in the fort's historic ovens. Fast food, bread sales.