The largest walled city in Europe — 52 towers and a double rampart. A full Carcassonne guide is being written — in the meantime, browse Occitanie for what's nearby.
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Toulouse Pink brick, Airbus, rugby and the biggest Romanesque church in Europe -
Montpellier Europe's oldest working medical school, and the sea ten minutes away - Nîmes The best-preserved Roman arena anywhere, still in weekly use
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Albi A fortress cathedral in red brick, and the Toulouse-Lautrec museum -
Perpignan Catalan France — a palace of the Kings of Majorca, and sardanes -
Collioure The bay where Matisse and Derain invented Fauvism -
Sète A canal port between sea and lagoon, and water jousting in August -
Rocamadour A pilgrimage village stacked up a 120-metre cliff in three tiers -
Cahors A fortified bridge with three towers, and black Malbec wine -
Millau Under the tallest bridge in the world, at the mouth of the Tarn gorges - Lourdes Six million pilgrims a year, at the foot of the Pyrenees