title: Ouvrage Col de la Buffère
text: # Ouvrage Col de la Buffère
  
  Ouvrage Col de Buffere is a lesser work (petit ouvrage) of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one combat block at an altitude of 2,393 metres (7,851 ft) on the Col de la Buffère. Additional blocks were planned but not built or were left incomplete.
  
  ## Description
  
      See Fortified Sector of the Dauphiné for a broader discussion of the Dauphiné sector of the Alpine Line.
  * Block 1 (entry): one Machine gun turret and two machine gun embrasures.
  * Block 2 (unbuilt): one heavy twin machine gun embrasure. The block was never built, and consists of a simple wood door in a concrete frame leading to the galleries within the cliffside.
  * Block 3 (uncompleted): one machine gun embrasure. The block was never built, and consists of a simple wood door in a concrete frame leading to the galleries within the cliffside.
  
  A small emergency exit exists at the southern end of the underground gallery, armed with a machine gun port.
  
  