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La Cité
La Cité, dramatically illuminated at night, is enclosed by two rampart walls and punctuated by 52 stone towers. But only the lower sections of the walls are original; the rest, including the anachronistic witches'-hat roofs (the originals were altogether flatter and weren't covered with slate), were stuck on by Viollet-le-Duc in the 19th century.
If you enter via the main entrance, before you rears a massive bastion, the Porte Narbonnaise and, just inside, the tourist office annexe. Rue Cros Mayrevieille, suffocating in kitschy souvenir shops, leads up to place du Château, heart of La Cité.
Through another archway and across a second dry moat is the 12th-century Château…
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