Porte Narbonnaise
Twin-towered medieval gateway with a drawbridge, guarded by the bust of a legendary princess.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Porte Narbonnaise in Carcassonne starts with the turbaned stone bust between its towers and the legend attached to her: a Saracen princess, Charlemagne's army camped below, and a larder down to one pig and one sack of wheat. It also asks why a town carved her in the fifteen-sixties, and what the thirteenth-century builders of the gate stored inside its towers. Best heard at the drawbridge, facing the bust.
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