Aigues-mortes Bull baiting ring Amphitheatre Courses Camarguaises, France

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Aigues-mortes Bull baiting ring Amphitheatre Courses Camarguaises, FranceAigues Mortes in the Camargue region of France is a perfectly preserved medieval walled city which has changed little since the Middle Ages and is surrounded by fields, canals and saltpans. It originated in the early thirteenth century when King Louis IX wanted his own royal port on the Mediterranean as all the ports on the south cost of France were owned by the Germanic King of Aragon and the Pope. He therefore brought a deserted piece of marshland about two kilometers from the sea and subsequently fortified the site and developed a port with the name Aigues Mortes derived from the Latin Aquae Mortuae meaning dead waters.

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