Maison de La Chevalerie
Small medieval-house museum of knightly weapons, costumes and crossbow games on a Cité lane.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Maison de la Chevalerie in Carcassonne's Cité follows two museums of chivalry and the people who ran them: Gilles Alessandri, a collector who guided visitors in medieval costume, and the owner who later filled an old house on Rue Saint-Louis with swords, crossbows and crusader costumes. It asks what keeps a museum of knights alive inside a city of walls. Best heard outside number twelve, facing the door.
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