Place du Grand Puits
Deep medieval well with Renaissance columns, wrapped in legends of fairies and buried Gothic treasure.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Place du Grand Puits in Carcassonne's walled Cité centres on a single fourteenth-century well and the beliefs that gathered around it. It moves from neighbours swapping gossip at the rim, to fairies, naiads and a devil in disguise, to a seventeenth-century historian writing down what townspeople swore the Goths had hidden. Stand with a hand on the stone lip while you listen.
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