Castles and chateaux of old Navarre and the Basque Provinces, including also Foix, Roussillon and Béarn (1907)
Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L.C. Page & Company · leaf 229
restlies with its elder sister. La Cite, a bouquet of 164 Old Navarre and the Basque Provinces walls and towers, just across the eight-hundred-year-old bridge over the Aude. Close to the feudal city, across the Pont-Vieux, was the barbican, a work completedunder Saint Louis. It gave immediate… … Carcassonne was a most ejffective strongholdand guarded two great routes which passeddirectly through it, one the Route de Spain,and the other running from Toulouse to theMediterranean, the same that scorching auto- The Walls of Carcassonne 165 mobilists let out on to-day as they go fromone…
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