Pictures and credits
There are no photographs on this site.
Every picture here (the star fort from above, the labelled star fort, the slice through the defences, the round tower and bastion comparison, the four steps, the nine-pointed star town, the cannon, the gate, the star fort with blossom trees, the logo, the favicon and the share image) is our own original, simplified drawing. They are not reconstructions or scale plans, and they are not traced or copied from any site plan, survey, guidebook, museum image or photograph. Only the labelled parts come from the sourced facts in each caption.
Charts and tables are our own layouts of figures quoted from the sources listed. Useless the eraser is the network’s own mascot. Fonts: Bricolage Grotesque, Newsreader and Kalam (SIL Open Font Licence), served from this site.
Not affiliated with UNESCO, the Network of Vauban’s Major Sites, English Heritage, Historic England, Historic Environment Scotland, the US National Park Service, the Japan National Tourism Organization, the Hakodate or Hokkaido tourism bodies, Fortress Bourtange, Visit Groningen, Visit Palmanova, italia.it, the UK government or any museum. Their names, and the names of the places they look after, are used only to identify the places and sources discussed. All pictures are our own simplified drawings: not reconstructions, not scale plans, and not copied from any site plan, map, guidebook or photograph.