Rue Cros Mayrevieille
Cobbled main street of the walled citadel, lined with shops from the Narbonne Gate to the castle.
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This audio guide to Rue Cros Mayrevieille, the main street of the walled Cité of Carcassonne, is about the people who worked it rather than the knights who defended it. It opens on a freezing February in the nineteen-seventies, when a paving crew and their elderly boss turned up at the Narbonne Gate. Along the way you'll meet the coal merchant, the cobbler the local kids nicknamed Zapatero, and a grocery run by two brothers. Best heard walking slowly uphill from the gate.
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