Tour du Tréseau
Late-medieval defensive tower with a stepped gable, corner lookouts and a rock-cut cellar.
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This guide to the Tour du Tréseau in Carcassonne's Cité looks at a late thirteenth-century tower beside the Narbonne Gate that shows the world two very different faces. It climbs from a cellar cut into the rock to a captain's room with its fireplace and latrines, and asks what an Occitan word is doing in the tower's name. Best heard standing on the town side, facing the stepped gable.
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