Aigues Morte, a 13th century walled city located in the Petit Camargue of Provence in Southern France

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Aigues Morte, a 13th century walled city located in the Petit Camargue of Provence in Southern France. Louis IX of France rebuilt the port city as France's only Mediterranean port at the time. The Romans founded the city in 102 BC which, since the tenth century, has been called the Dead Waters, Aigues Morte. From this port the Seventh Crusade of 1248 and the Tenth Crusade of 1270 left for Jerusalem. The city walls measuring more than a mile, 5,413 feet, were completed by 1300 AD. The Constance Tower, named after a Huguenot prisoner, was once part of castle completed in 1248 AD by Louis the IX, locally known as St Louis. The area around the city has been noted, since Medieval times, for salt production by evaporation of Mediterranean Sea water.

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Location: Aigues Morte, Camargue, Provence, Southern France
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