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La Porte d´Aude

Cité de Carcassonne in the Aude departément of the Languedoc-Roussillon, southern France, is the largest medieval town in Europe which still has the city walls intact. The village and the Chateau Comtal are protected by two concentric outer walls with towers, barbicans, moat and drawbridges. The walls of the fortress were restored by the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1853 and added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1997.

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