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City of Carcassonne dates back to an ancient protohistoric oppidum which
was romanized from the Ist Century B.C. Its Late
Empire inner
wall was partly reconstructed by the royal engineers at the
end of the XIIIth Century. The ancient
Cathedral of Saint-Nazaire and Saint-Celse, the
castle and the outer
wall, which doubled Carcassonne's defences when it became
a royal seneschalsy, are an exceptional example of the art of building between
the XIth and XIVth Centuries.