Notre Dame de La Santé
Flamboyant Gothic chapel of a former plague hospital, above the river at an old bridge's end.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to the Notre Dame de la Santé chapel in Carcassonne is about a small building and a big river. It follows the plague hospital that once stood at the end of the Pont Vieux, the man whose bequest enlarged it in the sixteenth century, and the Aude floods that have tested its walls ever since. Best heard on the old bridge, where you can see the chapel's riverside wall.
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