Aire du Belvédère d’Auriac
Raised motorway rest stop facing a double-walled medieval fortress across the valley.
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This guide turns a motorway rest stop on the A61 outside Carcassonne into a lesson in reading stone. From the picnic tables you look across at the Cité and learn to tell its oldest wall from its later ones, starting with the Roman builders who first ringed the hill. Best heard standing where the whole hilltop is in front of you.
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