For some reason, possibly explained by its distance from the nearest beach, the city of Carcassonne in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France has not yet been overrun by tourists. There are no ...

CARCASSONNE, France — Somewhere at the intersection of fantasy and history stands the medieval city of Carcassonne, a castle-on-the-hill getaway in the south of France. The Cite, as the walled-off ...

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At the east gate of this fortress city, busloads of tourists can do in 12 minutes what armies of barbarians, Moors and English soldiers couldn`t do in 12 centuries. With little more than a ...

The city of Carcassonne, one of the most beautiful fortresses in Europe and certainly one of the best preserved, is surrounded by majestic walls that are punctuated with defensive towers. The Chateau ...