Cité de Carcassonne
Hilltop medieval citadel ringed by double walls and fifty-two towers, still lived in today.
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This guide to the Cité de Carcassonne in France leaves the knights and sieges aside for the people who worked inside the walls. It follows the home weavers who filled the hill after the frontier moved south, the rag collectors beside them, and a doctor who came in eighteen thirty-six to see how they lived. Best heard standing in the lices, the grassy corridor between the two rings of rampart.
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