Pont Vieux
Medieval stone bridge of twelve arches over the Aude, linking the walled hilltop citadel to the lower town.
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This guide to the Pont Vieux in Carcassonne starts with a stone cross on one of its piers and the border it once marked between two rival towns. It follows the walled Cité and the lower town into fifteen ninety, when France's Wars of Religion pushed neighbours onto opposite sides. Best heard standing beside the cross, with the ramparts up the hill.
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