Pech Mary
Pine-shaded hilltop with a 360-degree panorama over the medieval walls, the Aude plain and the Black Mountain.
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This guide stands on Pech Mary, a pine-shaded hilltop above Carcassonne, looking down on the walled Cité and out across the Aude plain toward the Montagne Noire. It turns on the 1980s, a reservoir nicknamed Carcassonne Beach, and a protected-site law from 1998. Best heard facing the Porte Narbonnaise, with the whole horizon open around you.
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