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002 Carcassonne, France.

Carcassonne according to Wiki is a French fortified city in the department of Aude, in the region of Occitanie. A prefecture, it has a population of about 50,000.

Its citadel, known as the Cité de Carcassonne, is a medieval fortress dating back to the Gallo-Roman period and restored by the theorist and architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1853. It was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1997.[5] Consequently, Carcassonne relies heavily on tourism but also counts manufacturing and winemaking as some of its other key economic sectors.

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