. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . isigothic. 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 the legendaryMadame Carcas was encrusted in Renaissance
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . isigothic. 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 the legendaryMadame Carcas was encrusted in Renaissance restoration was completed in 1868. The bishopric was established in the sixth century :the first positive date is given by the presence ofSergius, the second Bishop, at the Council of Toledo,in 589. Several of his successors assisted at subsequentcouncils in the same city, which was the metropolisof the Visigothic kingdom ; while Carcassonne wasruled by a Visigothic Count. The dignitaries of theChapter appear in the ninth century. The Churchof S. Nazaire (dedicated to SS. Nazzaro and Celso. THE VAULTS 359 of Milan) appears to have always been the is mentioned for the first time in an Act of June, present church is later in date, but possibly thecrypt may contain some fragments of the earlierchurch, to which the two marble Corinthian capitalsof the north door may also have belonged, since theyappear to be earlier than the eleventh century, theperiod of the Romanesque portion. The exact dateis known, since Urban II. blessed the stones preparedfor its construction on June 11, 1096, and celebratedMass and preached in the Church of S. Marie andS. Sauveur. The vaulting is arranged in the Poitevin springing of the vaults in the aisles is at the sameheight as in the nave, and the nave receives hght onlyfrom the high narrow windows of the aisles. Thenave vault is a pointed waggon, with supporting arches,and was finished later than the aisles. The round-ar
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