St. Michael's Cathedral

France / Languedoc-Roussillon / Carcassonne /
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King Louis IX, who authorised the people living in the suburbs outside the town walls to settle on the other bank of the River Aude in 1247, ordered them to build two churches on each side of the new town (the "bastide"). They were to be dedicated to St. Michael and St. Vincent. www.carcassonne.org/carcassonne_EN.nsf/vueTitre/DocPatr...
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcassonne_Cathedral
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Coordinates:   43°12'39"N   2°21'3"E
This article was last modified 14 years ago