Saint Michael of Carcassonne
Fortified Gothic cathedral with a vast rose window and a Cavaillé-Coll organ crowned by angels.
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This guide to Saint-Michel Cathedral in Carcassonne turns on Christmas Eve, eighteen sixty, when a celebrated Paris organist climbed to the gallery to show the town its brand-new instrument. It follows a performer who divided critics, the builder and architect behind the pipes and case, and a church still recovering from a November fire. Best heard standing under the organ gallery, facing the main door.
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