I guess that July 14th is the perfect day to tell you a little bit about Bastille Day, especially because there are a lot of misconceptions about it in the English speaking world, or rather about how Bastille Day is celebrated in France. So, here are a few debunked misconceptions, […]
Fortress
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Today, I’m ending my series of posts about Albi with a few lines and pictures about the Palais de la Berbie. The palace was built in the 13th Century by Durand de Beaucaire who was Albi’s Bishop at the time. The fortress (because it is a fortress) was […]
Let’s return to Carcassonne for a short while and after the castle, let’s focus on the city walls a little bit. The oldest parts date back from the Gallo-Roman period, but it is in the 13th Century that the Kings of France decided to modernize and enlarge those walls […]