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The Gottéron Gate was part of the first fortification built in the thirteenth century and its present structure dates from the fifteenth century and 1627.
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Built between 1270 and 1290, the Bern Gate was heightened in the 1380s and shortly after 1400.
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The Bourguillon Gate barred upper access to the Maigrauge loop and is the only part of the wall made of freestone and quarry stone. The tower was built in the middle of the fourteenth century and raised to a height 14 metres at the end of the sixteenth century.
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Built in the middle of the thirteenth century, the Dürrenbühl Tower and its gate barred the passage between the Gottéron Gorge and the Sarine River.
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The Four-Pounder Tower was also built in the 1410s.
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The Maigrauge Gate barred lower access to the MAigrauge loop. It was built shortly after 1350, is 4-8 meters high, and, in 1445, was fortified with a small brattice.
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The Morat/Murten Gate was built in the 1410s at the edge of a natural gorge that had been spanned by the fortified Donnamary Bridge in the thirteenth century.
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Built in the middle of the thirteenth century under the influence of castle architecture, the Red Tower is Fribourg's oldest and most imposing tower.
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La Tour des Chats, édifiée dans la seconde moitié du XVI siècle contre le rempart le plus ancien.
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Located near the Cantonal Library, the Aigroz Tower was built at the beginning of the fifteenth century.
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The Great Bulwark was built in the 1490s. This early artillery fort, along with the Munot in Schaffhausen (1563), is the only structure of this kind in Switzerland.
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Built at the very beginning of the fifteenth century, this tower is named after the project manager, a Mr. Henri or Thierry.
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