PLEASE NOTE: The fort is closed until at least 2027 due to renovation work on the Fairy Cave. Thank you for your understanding.

While we await the start of the works, group visits (for 10 or more people) are still possible, subject to booking with the Tourist Office and guide availability ( or on 024 485 40 40).

In 1831, under pressure from a new threat of European conflict, Switzerland prepared to enforce the neutrality of the Saint-Maurice Pass. Bastioned fortifications – which are still visible today – were erected at the pass to defend the Rhône bridge, according to plans drawn up by the future General G.-H. Dufour.

The Cindey fort was built during World War II, between 1941 and 1946. It took over the role of the Dufour fortifications, as part of a coherent system of fortifications that included the large forts of Dailly, Savatan, and Scex, built from 1892 onwards.

In conjunction with the forts of Savatan and Toveyre-Petit Mont on the right bank of the Rhône and the interval troops, Cindey blocks the northern access to the Saint-Maurice basin, defeats the anti-tank obstacles formed by the Rhône canal and the Courset torrent, those prepared on the roads and the railways.

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