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Graphics by www.studio-abracadabra.fr - Photo credits : Emmanuel Dubail - Text : André Dubail CPA : Private collection COME AND DISCOVER A MAJOR SITE FROM THE 1914 -1918 WAR faced each other three armies Here, ontheswiss border, world site Circuit :aunique Zero Kilometre The W estern Front .

The Swiss army installed guard posts and observation The Villa Agathe : the first French concrete construction. posts on the frontier of the Largin. The northern post This post housing two machineguns also served as the From the land of three of the Largin, a blockhouse made of wood and soil was entrance to an extensive underground structure. A direct located opposite the Km 0 marker. The construction was trench railway was laid from Pfetterhouse station in order frontiers to the land restored by Swiss army engineers in November 2012. to build.

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