Life around the Gates
The City's Castles
Beyond the Ramparts
Boundaries and territories
The Walled City
   
   
   
 
 
    
   
THE URBAN AREA
 
Diagram: The Urban Area
 
The Count's Castle rises up in the centre of the city. It is a veritable fortress in the heart of the fortress, around which the houses and streets huddle surrounded by a first wall fortified with ramparts. Outside this wall are the lists then a second line of fortifications. This is only a theoretical boundary and we should add a final circle surrounding, immediately beside the walls, a few farms and the suburbs of Trivalle and the Barbican. The nearby river Aude and the Old Bridge which spans it, are the outermost bounds of the Urban Area.
 
 

           

 
 The Urban Area
 Boundaries and Territories
 Beyond the Ramparts
 Life around the Gates
 The Walled City
 The City's Castles