Carcassonne

On Friday the 28th we left the Périgord Noir region and headed to the south of France. On the way, we stopped in Carcassonne, a fortified French town that has about 2,500 years of history, first as a Gaulish settlement, then a Roman fortified town, and finally as an annex to the French kingdom in 1247, under Louis IX, becoming a border citadel between France and the Kingdom of Aragon (Spain).

But it was pouring when we got there and nobody felt like getting out of the car (the fortified village is pedestrian-only), so we decided to continue our trip, but not before taking a few pictures under the rain.