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Castle · Carcassonne, France

La Cité

Two rings of wall and 52 towers, heavily restored in the 1850s and argued about ever since.

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La Cité is in Carcassonne, and this is Carcassonne — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 590 km across and 210 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. Relief from GMTED2010 (USGS) and ETOPO1 (NOAA), public domain. The full map →

Give it 3 hours · Open year-round · 43.206°N, 2.364°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

The TGV network makes Paris–Marseille three hours and Paris–Bordeaux two. All of France →

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Carcassonne · Provence & the Mediterranean · France

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The record

What this atlas holds about La Cité, and nothing it does not.

Kind
Castle
Give it
3 hours
Season
Open year-round
Where
43.206°N, 2.364°E
In
Carcassonne