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Kraj: Carcassonne, država: France

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Opis mesta: Carcassonne (Occitan: Carcassona) is a protected French town in the Aude d'partement, of which it is the prefecture, in the late field of Languedoc. It is distributed into the protected Cite de Carcassonne and the many impressive inferior port, the ville basse. The sept etymology - involving a chatelaine titled Carcas, a ruse finish a siege and the merry sound of bells ("Carcas sona") - though memorialized in a neo-Gothic shape of Mme. Carcas on a form come the Narbonne Revenue, is of moderne conception. The fort, which was thoroughly reconditioned in 1853 by the theorist and creator Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, was further to the UNESCO name of Grouping Heritage Sites in 1997.

Carcassonne was struck from the listing of officialdom fortifications low Napoleon and the Refurbishment, and the secure cite of Carcassonne elapse into specified disrepair that the Sculptor authorities definite that it should be demolished. A enactment to that belief that was prefab formalised the defense as a historical structure. Ulterior in the year the designer Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, already at succeed restoring the Basilica of Saint-Nazaire, was licensed to renew the residence.

In 1853, totality began with the westward and southwest walling, followed by the towers of the court Narbonnaise and the financier entry to the cite. The fortifications were consolidated here and there but the principal work was freelance to restoring the roofing of the towers and the ramparts, where Viollet-le-Duc regulated the death of structures that had encroached against the walls, both of them of extensive age. Viollet-le-Duc faction copious notes and drawings at his change in 1879, when his educatee Apostle Boeswillwald, and ulterior the architect Nodet continued the rehabilitation of Carcassonne. The age was strongly criticized during Viollet-le-Duc's period. Clean from create in the northwe local practise was traditionally of tile roofing and low slopes, in a snow-free environs. Yet, overall, Viollet-le-Duc's action at Carcassonne is agreed to be a pass of talent, though not of strictest legitimacy. Defence consists of a dual ring of ramparts and 53 towers.