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PAROCHES VILLAGE CHURCH
Leaving Chauvoncourt, take to the right G.C. 34, which leads to Paroches.
The village of Paroches is an absolute ruin. The 14th century church, with the exception of part of the belfry, has been almost entirely destroyed (photo opposite).
At the end of the village, on the right, near the Calvary and skirting the wall of the last house, there is a military cemetery. Take, on the left, the narrow road to Fort Paroches. Around the fort are numerous defence works and the graves of French soldiers.
Paroches Fort, built to protect the approaches to Spada Pass, which Troyon Fort defended on the north, is an old masonry fort. Visit the shelters, inner works in concrete.