Castle

Cité de Carcassonne

Building (medieval walled city / fortress) · Anonymous (Roman, Visigothic, and medieval master masons; restored by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc 1853-1879)

The Cité de Carcassonne is the largest intact medieval walled fortress in Europe. The walls began as a Gallo-Roman fortification in the 1st century CE, were expanded by the Visigoths after 460, fortif