Place Carnot
Market square around an eighteenth-century marble Neptune fountain, shaded by plane trees.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Place Carnot in Carcassonne follows the water in its Neptune fountain, starting on a festival day in eighteen thirty-nine when a royal duke and his wife came to town. It reaches back to a first Neptune perched on a rock in the sixteen-seventies, and to the Italian father and son whose marble commission stretched across two decades. Best heard beside the pink marble basin on a market morning, under the plane trees.
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