Carcassonne Castle Walking Tour. See the walls and inside. =) – Carcassonne France – ECTV
Hey everybody, this is Eric Clark’s travel videos and I’m in Kakuskcon Caracuscon France and I’m at the castle and the castle is phenomenal. It’s a doublewalled castle and the city inside and it is intact and amazing. Take a look at this. Oh my gosh. Is that amazing? Wow. Wow. Wow. All right. Well, let me go figure out what it takes to go inside and tickets and all that stuff and I will be right back with you and we’ll go in and explore it together. Be right back. All right. So, this is the walled city and uh and it is amazing. I’ve been here before and I always thought what was cool was the two walls. So, it’s got a moat on the outside, a wall And then the other wall. So you can see this wall up front here in the front and then the wall in the back and these tours. And let me show you the name and you can see it over here and it’s a UNESCO heritage site. That’s it. And you can see that it’s Keson Kerasonone. Kerkason. And so if you look here, you can see the moat and the wall, which is pretty amazing. And then the draw bridge and all this stuff. And then if you’re on this side, they put a road through here. And there’s the towers. That is just amazing, isn’t it? Wow. So, and the moat goes all the way up and around that way. Wow. Pretty amazing. Now, it’s tough cuz the ground is all cobblestone and goofy, so you got to watch your step. Here’s the drawbridge. And so we’re going to go inside. Oops. So we’re inside the first wall, right? So you go over the moat through the first wall. Now you’re here in the second wall. And this is the second wall. And it’s bigger and more opposing for sure. Certainly a stronghold for all. get out and you can go with a tour or walk around it yourself. Uh it’s a guided tour if you want it, but we don’t want that. We’re just going to go in and I’m just going to go in and give you a sample and a flavor so you know that you want to come here or don’t want to come here. Go ahead. And you can go into the walls and everything else. It’s pretty amazing. You can buy swords and armor, knives and daggers, postcards. And I bet I can find a beer somewhere. And it’s and it’s really a an old city inside of the walled fortress. No, we’ll go right down the middle. How’s that sound? Excuse me. Crazy. And they’ve got ah candy, beer, sodas. I’m going to have to check back here for my strawberry gummy bears or strawberry gummy stuff. More candy. Oh. Oh, it smells wonderful. Wow. Gelato. All natural. More ice cream and stuff. Wow. Oh, that looks like you need a ticket. Parkour’s de visit. Billets ahead. Oh, and I think they do fighting and stuff in there, too. Jousting and stuff. But you know what? Let’s just let’s just adventure out up one of these little side streets and see what we get. And it certainly is cute. And it certainly is old. Huh. So, it’s like they have business streets and living streets because these are all houses. These are people’s homes and stuff. So, I don’t know. Wow. Cute. And it’s interesting. A jogger. Where’s I guess he just goes around and around he goes. I bet he doesn’t get lost too often. I like the hedges, too. They’re pretty. Oh, and is this a church? No. What is this building? We’ll go to the other side to where the shops are. But I think it’s good to see that it’s a not only a, you know, a tourist city, but it’s also a working living city. So, people live here and uh I don’t Oh, I bet there’s schools and all sorts of stuff. So, and it’s nice that it doesn’t cost anything to get inside. So, you don’t need a ticket here. You need a ticket for all the little shows and stuff, I think. Um, but uh and what is this? This is This looks like the backside. Oh, there’s the police station. Yeah. And that’s a school. So, Central Pomon, I think that’s a prep school or something. I don’t know. But it looks like a school. And there were kids here. So, Huh. Left or right? Left. Let’s go this way. Oh. Huh? She’s in a And well in front of me crepes. It’s bright. It’s hard to see my camera. Iris Gallery. They can examine your eyes. All right. Well, I’m going to walk around a little bit. I got to go find a restroom. And oh, I’ll look in this hole for you. Is this just a place where they shoot arrows from? I bet it is. That’s exactly what it is. Yeah. So, he would just sit here and shoot arrows. Thump. Pretty crazy. Okay, I’ll be right back. All right, everybody. Here’s the bathrooms. And you know me, anytime I see something unique or different about the bathrooms, I got to go give it a try. And so, it says toilets and handicap toilets and all that kind of stuff. And let me read to you what it says. These toilets are cleaned and disinfected after each use. Child under 10 years of age must be accompanied accompanied. Maximum time in use 15 minutes. So you can’t park in there. So you get the green light. You guys see the green light. Now watch what happens. So you just pull the door and watch. Watch what happens. Watch the toilet seat when you go in and shut the door. How funny. And so you do your thing and it’s got a dryer and water on one side, a dryer on the other. You can hang your stuff and everything else. But I thought the automated uh toilet seat was uh interesting as heck. So certainly certainly interesting. Okay, moving on. All right, everybody. So the toilet was quite unique. So then I looked at the other one. So I was in the handicapped one. If you go into the other one, it has uh it has the Asian kind of toilet where it’s flat on the ground and it’s the the leg sprayer. Well, I guess never mind. We’re not going to go down this rabbit hole. Definitely get us some problems. So, very cool. And it’s got this restaurants and stuff and it’s just a little big huge castle. Um, and restaurants and walls and you can run the ramp parts inside and out. You can eat lunch. And they got lots of restaurants. Lots and lots of restaurants. Huh. And then look at the pictures. Look at the castle. How amazing is that? Wow. Wow. Wow. That’s amazing. Well, and you can look at how much the prices are. So, I don’t know. This is 29 or $20.90 and you get one of those. I think that’s soup or something or petit. Tapas are escargo. Huh. and pizzas. 15, 16, 18, 20 bucks for a cheeseburger. Anyway, definitely interesting. It really is quite an amazing place. Let’s go look at the square. And you can see the people up there on the ramp part. So you really can walk this whole thing and it goes up into all the towers and and it just keeps going. So it’s pretty amazing. Huh. Incredible. But I think to walk the ramp parts you have to pay. So cute place. Let’s see which way do we want to go. Left, straight. Let’s go. Let’s go straight. And I guess it’s dog friendly and kid-friendly. Yep. Wow. You have to be really careful here. It’s very uneven and the ground is really crazy. So, just be safe. And it’s certainly not a uh mobility challenge person. I think you could get a good scooter through here if it had like pneumatic tires and stuff, but if it uh if it was hard ones, then uh you’d probably have a hard time. Pretty amazing, huh? Very cool. Let’s look at this wall over here. I think I came through here the first time, but I didn’t go over to this thing. But I think this is where the shows are. I want to see how much the shows are. Um, let’s see. Terrace. Has Trump been here? Oh, it has an outline of the walls, too. That’s kind of cool. So the purple is the Rampart quest. The blue is Rampart East Chateau Rampart Nero. So for an individual it’s 13 bucks. Um and so I think this is the right one. Yeah, there you go. So 13 bucks visitors guides and then I don’t have a ticket. Okay. And that’s what it looks like inside. Let’s go this way. Yeah, it’s just a cute little town inside the castle wall essentially and they play a little Bob Marley. And there are restaurants everywhere. No McDonald’s yet, but I’m still looking. All right, that’s it for me. I’ll be right back. Bye, everybody.
Carcassonne is a commune in the Aude department in south-western France.
Historically and culturally, the commune is part of the Carcassès, a country centred on the city of Carcassonne, between the beginnings of the Massif Central and the Pyrenean foothills. Exposed to an altered oceanic climate, it is drained by the Canal du Midi, the Aude, the Fresquel, the Arnouze, the Bazalac stream, the Malepère stream, the Fount Guilhen stream and by various other small streams, including the Garrel and Montirat streams which feed the Cavayère lake.
Carcassonne is an urban municipality with 46,429 inhabitants in 2022, after having experienced almost continuous population growth since the 1800s. It belongs to the urban unit of Carcassonne and is part of the Carcassonne catchment area. Its inhabitants are called Carcassonnais and its inhabitants are called Carcassonnaises. Carcassonne is the main city of Carcassonne Agglo (114,411 inhabitants in 2022).
Occupied since the Neolithic period, Carcassonne is located in the Aude plain between two major traffic routes linking the Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea and the Massif Central to the Pyrenees.
The city is known for the Cité de Carcassonne, a medieval architectural ensemble restored by Viollet-le-Duc in the nineteenth century and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997[1].
Geography
Location
Carcassonne is located in the southwest of France, 95 kilometers southeast of Toulouse. Its strategic location on the route between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean has been known since the Neolithic period. The town lies in a corridor between the Montagne Noire to the north and the Corbières to the east, the Lauragais plain to the west and the Aude valley to the south. This natural region is called the Carcassès or the Carcassonnais.
The area of the commune is 65 km2, which is large compared to the many small communes of the Aude. The city is crossed by the Aude, the Fresquel and the Canal du Midi.
Kilometre distances between Carcassonne and the regional capitals (roads/motorways): Ajaccio: 542 km (as the crow flies), Bordeaux: 335 km, Dijon: 637 km, Lille: 986 km, Lyon: 444 km, Marseille: 318 km, Nantes: 678 km, Orléans: 645 km, Paris: 768 km, Rennes : 788 km, Rouen: 877 km, Strasbourg: 929 km, Toulouse: 95 km, Montpellier: 130 km. The nearest town is Narbonne (62 km).
Neighbouring municipalities
The neighbouring communes are Berriac, Caux-et-Sauzens, Cavanac, Cazilhac, Couffoulens, Fontiès-d’Aude, Lavalette, Montirat, Palaja, Pennautier, Pezens, Roullens, Trèbes, Villedubert and Villemoustaussou.
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