Eglise Saint-Gimer
Neo-Gothic parish church raised on the ruins of a medieval barbican below a fortified citadel.
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This guide to the Église Saint-Gimer in Carcassonne begins in a family kitchen in the Barbacane quarter, early in the tenth century, where a mother keeps finding her loaves gone missing and suspects her own son. It follows that boy, Gimer, and the legend his neighbourhood never let go of. Listen from the square in front of the church, with the walls of the Cité rising above you.
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