Tag:footway=chemin_de_ronde

footway = chemin_de_ronde
Description
A chemin de ronde was devised as a walkway allowing guards and defenders to patrol the tops of ramparts, protected from the outside by the battlements or a parapet.
Group: highways
Used on these elements
Requires
defensive_works=* wall=castle_wall historic=citywalls barrier=city_wall
Implies
horse=no vehicle=no
Useful combination
bridge=yes ladder=yes stairs=yes entrance=*
See also
highway=via_ferrata
Status: proposed
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Use footway=chemin_de_ronde alongside highway=footway to represent a chemin de ronde (French for "round path"' or "patrol path", also known as an "allure", "alure", a "wall-walk", "guard-walk") for traversing a city walls or castle and fortress walls. This path is a raised protected walkway behind a wall=castle_wall, historic=citywalls, barrier=city_wall battlement or simple parapet. Today, it is a feature of medieval fortifications of high tourist interest.

How to map

Draw a way and tag it with footway=* and footway=chemin_de_ronde. Accesses could be drawn and tagged as a stairs, entrance, directly or via towers (fortified tower or city gate).

Add footway=chemin_de_ronde and details along the way such as:

• ladder=yes
• stairs=*
• entrance=yes

Other tags that could be useful in combination include:

• bridge=yes
• wheelchair=*
• bicycle=*

Examples

• 
  Stairs to chemin de ronde along the Walls of Dubrovnik
• 
  Great wall of China - very long chemin de ronde
• 
  Chemin de ronde along the Walls of Ston, longest in Europe.
• 
  Chemin de ronde along the Jajce Citadel walls
• 
  Castell de l'Aïnsa
• 
  Chemin de ronde (camminamenti di ronda in Italian) Castello Bardi
• 
  Castelo de Numão, Portugal
• 
  Chemin de ronde in Brouage

See also

• climbing=* - mapping of climbing routes
• assisted_trail=*