Fort Boyard

Fort Boyard is a fort built on Boyard bank, an ocean bank located between the and the in the straits on the west coast of .
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: fort in Charente-Maritime, France
  • Also known as: “Le Fort Boyard”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Musée napoléonien de l’île d’Aix and Hôtel de ville d’Île-d’Aix.

Museum
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Fort Boyard.

Town hall
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is a town hall, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Fort Boyard.

Church
Photo: Llann Wé², CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Fort Boyard.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fouras.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as Fouras-les-Bains, is a commune in the French department of , administrative region of . It lies 34 km south of . is situated 9 km east of Fort Boyard.

Fort Boyard

Latitude
45.99965° or 45° 59′ 59″ north
Longitude
-1.21394° or 1° 12′ 50″ west
Inception
1857
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
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Wiki­data ID
Q92089
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Algerian Arabic to Ukrainian—“Fort Boyard” goes by many names.
  • Algerian Arabic: “برج الابطال”
  • Arabic: “قلعة بويار”
  • Armenian: “Ֆորտ Բոյար”
  • Azerbaijani: “Boyard qalası”
  • Basque: “Boyard gotorlekua”
  • Belarusian: “Форт Баяр”
  • Bulgarian: “Фор Бояр”
  • Catalan: “Fort Boyard”
  • Chinese: “博涯监狱”
  • Chinese: “布瓦亚尔堡垒”
  • Czech: “Pevnost Boyard”
  • Danish: “Fort Boyard”
  • Dutch: “Fort Boyard”
  • Esperanto: “Fortikaĵo Bojardo”
  • Finnish: “Fort Boyard”
  • French: “fort Boyard”
  • French: “Fort Boyard”
  • German: “Fort Boyard”
  • Greek: “Φορ Μπουαγιάρ”
  • Hebrew: “מבצר בואייר”
  • Hungarian: “Fort Boyard”
  • Italian: “Fort Boyard”
  • Japanese: “フォール・ボワヤール”
  • Korean: “보야르 요새”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “fort Boyard”
  • Norwegian: “Fort Boyard”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Fort Boyard”
  • Persian: “قلعه بویار”
  • Polish: “Fort Boyard”
  • Portuguese: “Forte Boyard”
  • Russian: “Форт Байяр”
  • Russian: “Форт Бойяр”
  • Serbian: “Фор Бојар”
  • Slovak: “Pevnosť Boyard”
  • Spanish: “Fuerte Boyard”
  • Swedish: “Fort Boyard”
  • Ukrainian: “Форт Баяр”
  • Ukrainian: “Форт Буаяр”

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