Old Artillery Field

Vung tau old Artillery Field

This is a defending line built by French colonials over 100 years ago, successively allocated on a straight line at different altitudes from Northwest to Southeast sides of Big and Small mountains. To create absolute secure corridor put down the gateway region South east then immediate govern because of France. This artillery field consists of 3 big complexes of Cau Da, Nui Lon, an Tao Phung artillery fields with 23 guns. Cau Da field has 4 guns disposed in bow shape with the barrels pointing to Bai Truoc. Nui Lon field's function was to constrain the entire Ganh Rai bay. where the torpedo and gun cellar systems remain intact. Tao Phung field was located at the foot of Kito statue, distributed in 3 units. Vung tau's artillery fiel is the biggest old weapon collection in Indochina, with high socio-economic values and has been ranked as National historical relic by the Ministry of Culture and Information.

Vung tau old Artillery Field