Saint-Ambroix

Saint-Ambroix grew beneath the Dugas, a height above the Cèze where a castle and church stood within walls by the twelfth century. A second circuit of defences enclosed the growing town in the fourteenth century. The Reformation divided its religious life, and in 1628 the inhabitants built a third, bastioned enceinte to resist royal troops. Its successive walls trace the town's growth and the changing demands of war.