Sights

Carcassonne has two centres : Right bank (rive droite) and Left bank (rive gauche). On right bank you find the Cité, a medieval fortress with its Romanesque and gothic basilica, its fortified castle (where the Counts used to live), its alley-ways, its wells, enclosed within two lines of ramparts. Left bank offers Saint-Louis Bastide, its churches, its grid iron streets, its main square, its private houses witnesses of the old clothmerchants prosperity of the 17th and 18th centuries, its corner bastions and its avenues.