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Château d'If

fortification near Marseille, France
Administrative Area Fortress Q622500

Facts

15 properties

Designation

Instance of
fortress
Heritage designation
classified historical monument, monument historique inscrit[14][15]

Location

Country
France[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 43.280°, 5.325°[8]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Frioul Islands[2]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata Frioul Islands merimee Marseille edition 2026-10-02 · etalab-2.0
Postal code
13007[5]

Period and style

Inception
1527[7]
Architectural style
medieval architecture[4]
Significant event
construction
More facts +6
Official website
www.chateau-if.fr, www.chateau-if.fr, www.chateau-if.fr[10][11][12]
Has use
prison, museum, sea fort[6]
Described by source
Starforts[13]
Different from
Île d’If, Château d'If, Le Port-Marly[17][18]
Located in/on physical feature
Île d’If[9]
Native label
Château d'If[16]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 18
VIAF cluster ID
249396875
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Château d'If @ Baie de Marseille 01.jpg ↗
Atlas Obscura place ID
chateau-d-if
Chemins de mémoire ID
chateau-dif
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Chateau-dIf
Freebase ID
/m/01ck0h
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1432472
GeoNames ID
3012909
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
if
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0500951
Kulturenvanteri monument ID
325323
Mérimée ID
PA00081333
Show all 18 identifiers +6
PSS-archi ID
FR-13055-22580
Peakbagger mountain ID
-174143
Structurae structure ID
20013555
Topic's main category
Category:Château d'If
Wikisimpsons article ID
106398
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJcgCqRYTwW3cqkCdmwjYP
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Bronze
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🔗 Connections
Has use 2
museum, prison
Architectural style 1
medieval architecture
Belongs to 1
Île d’If
Country 1
France
Described by source 1
Starforts
Different from 1
Île d’If
Instance of 1
fortress
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Frioul Islands
Located in/on physical feature 1
Île d’If
People who died here 1
Abbe Faria
Residents 1
Edmond Dantès
← Different from 1
Île d’If
← Narrative location 1
The Count of Monte Cristo
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Summary

Château d'If is a fortress[1].

Related Entities

France The Count of Monte Cristo

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · Sabelöga · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://www.chateau-if.fr/, https://www.chateau-if.fr/en, https://www.chateau-if.fr/es
    Described by source → Starforts
    Has use → prison, museum, sea fort
    Located in/on physical feature → Île d’If
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Wikisimpsons article ID: 106398, Matched to Château d'If (#296180245) in Wikisimpsons #mix"
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