Place Gambetta, Carcassone
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The Gambetta Square is located on the outside of one of the two old villages of Carcassone: La Bastide de Saint Louis. It's a huge square that heads to the main bridge over the Aude river that crosses the city.
The old bridge over the Aude river that joins "La Cité" with "La Bastide de Saint Louis", the two cit...
La Cité de Carcassonne est un ensemble architectural médiéval qui se trouve dans la ville française d...
The fortified city itself is essentially of concentric design with two outer walls with towers and ba...
Carcassonne became strategically identified when Romans fortified the hilltop around 100 BC and event...
La Cité de Carcassonne est un ensemble architectural médiéval qui se trouve dans la ville française d...
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La Cité de Carcassonne est un ensemble architectural médiéval qui se trouve dans la ville française d...
Languedoc-Roussillon is a French region which is composed of five departments. It is bounded by Spain, Andorra in the south and along the Mediterranean Sea (Gulf of Lions). Other French region limit the regions of Languedoc-Roussillon: Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Rhone-Alpes, Auvergne, Midi-Pyrenees. The natural boundaries are the Pyrenees and the so-called threshold Lauragais, the Cévennes and the Rhône.
In 2004, the Regional Council chose a joint new logo symbolizes the sun, which has the motto: "Living in Septimania. In fact, the current president of the Regional Council, Georges Freche wanted to rename the area "Septimania", but then it has to do so. Septimania is an old name, used since the fifth century for the region, but the Department of Lozère was not yet among them. Above all, the Catalans rejected by an overwhelming majority of this amendment. After numerous protests, including a demonstration of about 8,000 people on the 8th October 2005 in Perpignan, Georges Freche was the project of Bezeichnugsänderung in "Septimania" and the name of the region Languedoc-Roussillon "is introduced as an official designation for the Regon.
The languages of the region along with French, Occitan (Languedoc, Auvergne, Provence), and Catalan. The name of the region favors Lengadòc-Rosselhon Occitan and Catalan Rosselló-Llenguadoc.
