. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . de IAude, outside of which was the great bar-bican, united to the city by a crenellated and stronglydefended road. The Church of S. Gimer now occupiespart of its site. The river then ran much nearer tothe walls, but, notwithstanding, it was the want ofwater which obliged the garrison to surrender to Simonde Montfort in 1209. The reconstruction of the castle and the restorationof several Visigothic towers probably took place about1130, and under S. Louis it was again restored andstrengthened, but his
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . de IAude, outside of which was the great bar-bican, united to the city by a crenellated and stronglydefended road. The Church of S. Gimer now occupiespart of its site. The river then ran much nearer tothe walls, but, notwithstanding, it was the want ofwater which obliged the garrison to surrender to Simonde Montfort in 1209. The reconstruction of the castle and the restorationof several Visigothic towers probably took place about1130, and under S. Louis it was again restored andstrengthened, but his death occurred before the workwas finished, and it is to his son, Philippe le Hardi,that the strongest portions of the fortifications are due,distinguishable by the bossed masonry. The greatBishops tower, the Tour Mipadre at the south-westangle, and the towers of the Tresau and the PorteNarbonnaise were so strong that when the BlackPrince burnt the lower town he thought it useless toattack the upper. That Viollet-le-Duc was right inhis general ideas is proved by a relief by the side of the. 358 CARCASSONNE Porte Narbonnaise, which shows it with a pointed roof,indicating the use of slate, as well as the fact thatamong the debris at the foot of the towers manyfragments of slate were found. The castle of the Viscounts is now a caserne. Ithas nine towers, one of which (a slender square one)has a cupola vault and Romanesque windows, withslender colonnettes supporting lintels of concrete. Thenorthern portion of the walls is very ancient, eitherRoman or Visigothic. The bases of the towers aregenerally square, and built of large stones, while abovethey become round and are composed of small squarestones intermingled with stripes of brick, the windowsbeing round-headed with alternate voussoirs of bricksand stones. Except at the Porte Narbonnaise andthe defences round it this Gallo-Roman constructionis found nearly all round the walls. In the wall of thebarbican at this gate the image of
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