Château de Peyrepertuse
Ridge-top fortress ruin stretching along a limestone crest, with a royal keep reached by rock-cut stairs.
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This audio guide to the Château de Peyrepertuse, in the hills south of Carcassonne, follows Guillaume de Peyrepertuse, the thirteenth-century lord of this ridge, through years of surrender, excommunication and revolt. It touches the Archbishop of Narbonne, the French crown and a southern uprising of twelve forty. Best heard on the lower terrace, looking up toward the highest rock.
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