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The castle of Carcassonne, known as the "Palatium" is a defensive strength and resilience rather than the tw
Please excuse any mistakes this translation might have and feel free to correct them if you wish to collaborate with our project.
The castle of Carcassonne, known as the "Palatium" is a defensive strength and resilience rather than the twelfth century, which was built by the Viscounts of Trencavel, powerful family in the south of France, linked to the counts of Toulouse, which lost its dominance in Carcassonne, in the course of the struggle against heresies.
The year 1997 was declared a UNESCO world heritage site.
Recovery of the city of Carcassonne
The city already existed as a commercial center in 800 BC, then inhabited by the Romans, who fortified.
The Visigoths in the seventh century fortified even better, rejecting attacks by the Franks. In the 725 years was taken by Muslims to 759.
Since 1067, by marriage, were taken to Ramon Bernardo Trencavel, viscount of Albi and Nimes. The Trencavel build the castle.
In the thirteenth century the city is in the crusade against the Albigenses, this is how Trencavel is defeated. The new residents and extending the fortifications Carcassonne became a citadel of the border between France and the Crown of Aragon.
The city finally fell in 1247 to control franc. Louis IX of France, called San Luis, founded the new town at the foot of the hill.
During the Hundred Years War, the black prince (1355) managed to take the city down, but not the upper town, which remained impregnable.
The strength of Carcassonne came to be abandoned and deteriorated so that was a campaign to preserve the city as a historical monument. To that end in 1849, the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc made the renovation project of the city.
With a stone wall in the form of a double ring, and 53 towers, the old city, stands to the west of the River Aude. On the other side, below, stands the new city, the Bastida, trace straight. In the old citadel, now live a hundred people.
The box is located on a hill in the medieval citadel of Carcassonne, in the west of the rocky promontory of the old city belt, and three of its towers, the Chapel of the Poudre and Paint.
It is one of the most impressive fortresses in southern France.
The exterior facade gives the river Aude and dominates the new town, the 