Visitors exploring the well preserved fortified double defence walls of the castle at Carcassonne in the department of Aude, in the region of Occitani

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Visitors exploring the well preserved fortified double defence walls of the castle at Carcassonne in the department of Aude, in the region of Occitanie in southern France. Carcassonne is the largest fortified doubled walled city in Europe (among those that have their defensive wall still intact). It is known as the Cite de Carcassonne, dating back to the Gallo-Roman period. Since that time, major additions were made to the castle in the 13th and 14th centuries. Carcassonne castle was restored by the theorist and architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1853. In 1997, the castle was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.

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Location: Carcassonne, France
Photo credit: © richard sowersby / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: architecture, attraction, aude, building, carcassonne, castle, chateau, eugene, france, french, heritage, history, medieval, occitanie, site, tourism, tourist, unesco, viollet-le-duc, world