Carcassonne City Walls

I recently showed you Carcassonne's Castle and briefly introduced the city:Carcassonne CastleYou may have already heard of Carcassonne, located in the Southwest region of France. In short, it’s a walled medieval city that became important during the Albigensian Crusade and remained so for the rest of the Middle Ages, until the southern border of France moved south to the PyrénéesHowever, the castle is just a small part of the fortifications that protected the medieval town for centuries. The most impressive and most famous aspect of Carcassonne's medieval city is its city walls.Here are a few lines and a few pictures about them.The oldest parts of the walls date back to the Gallo-Roman period, but the Kings of France modernized and enlarged them in the 13th century to turn the place into the fortified city it has been ever since.The walls are made of local stone, are several meters wide, and range from 10 to 12 meters in height.There are not one, but two enclosures, which made the…