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Day 1
Meet at meeting point: Buste de Dame Carcas 11000 Carcassonne, France Before arrival, please install the VoiceMap mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. This is a self-guided audio tour that you can start, pause, or restart at any time and complete at your own pace. Detailed starting point instructions are available after downloading.Attractions and Activities: La Cité Médiévale La Cite Medievale (Free entry How to visit:No indoor visits) This self-guided audio tour takes place around the medieval city of Carcassonne.
Attractions and Activities: Buste de Dame Carcas (Free entry How to visit:No indoor visits) On this tour, you'll see the Buste de Dame Carcas (a sculpture of Lady Carcas) and tell you the story of how she saved the city from Charlemagne.
Attractions and Activities: Porte Narbonnaise (Free entry How to visit:No indoor visits) As you enter the city through Porte Narbonnaise (Narbonne Gate, you'll begin following the wall, which encircles the old city. Along the way, you'll also learn about the Cathars who flourished here in the twelfth century, the crusade launched against them, and some of the sieges that took place here.
Attractions and Activities: Walls of Carcassonne (Free entry How to visit:No indoor visits) As you follow the wall around the city, you'll learn about medieval warfare and locate the various “kill zones” that enemies risked finding themselves trapped in when attempting to siege the city.
Attractions and Activities: Chateau et Remparts de la Cite de Carcassonne (Free entry How to visit:No indoor visits) You'll take in the impressive and almost century-old Château et Remparts de la Cité de Carcassonne, also known as the Château Comtal, where the castle meets the wall and its surrounding defenses.
Attractions and Activities: Chateau et Remparts de la Cite de Carcassonne (Free entry How to visit:No indoor visits) You'll take in the impressive and almost century-old Château et Remparts de la Cité de Carcassonne, also known as the Château Comtal, where the castle meets the wall and its surrounding defenses.
Attractions and Activities: Monument de la Jean-Pierre Cros-Mayrevieille (Free entry How to visit:No indoor visits) You'll gaze upon the monument de la Jean Pierre Cros Mayrevieille, a doctor of law, a historian and an Inspector of Historic Monuments who saved the city from ruin.
Attractions and Activities: Church of Saints Nazaire and Celse (Free entry How to visit:No indoor visits) On this two-hour tour, you won't just trace the walls of Carcassonne, you'll also venture into its centre through various gates including the Aude, Nazaire, and Toulouse Gates, and see the Church of Saints Nazaire and Celse, the city's two patron saints.
Guests leave on their own: End the tour on your own and bring your trip to a happy conclusion The tour ends at the Narbon Gate after walking around the Cite de Carcassonne and following its medieval walls.
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