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Carcassonne is a fortified French town in the Aude department, of which it is the prefecture, in the former province of Languedoc. It is divided into the fortified Cité de Carcassonne and the more expansive lower city, the ville basse. Carcassone was founded by the Visigoths in the fifth century, though the Romans had fortified the settlement earlier... (read more)
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Château d'If
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The Château d'If is a fortress (later a prison)
located on the island of If in the Frioul Archipelago (L`Archipel du Frioul)
situated in the Mediterranean Sea. The Frioul Archipelago consists of four
islands, all reaching 200 hectares. The island of If, adjacent to the islands Pomeg
and Raton, is the smallest island of the archipelago of Friuli (at the widest
point the island reaches 180 m, and the maximum length is 300 m) and is located
about a mile offshore in the Bay of Marseille in southeastern France... (read more)
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Château de Sarzay is a 14th century castle in the village of Sarzay in the
Indre département of France. Château de Sarzay is one of the chateaus of the
southern Loire Valley, which although close to a tributary of the Indre, but
already adjacent to the foothills of the Massif Central. Like many buildings of
this type in the Auvergne and Limousin, Sarzay had a rectangular form, flanked
by 25-meter cylindrical high towers. The château was protected by two outer
walls, and 38 towers. In the first period there was also a moat with three
drawbridges and a 4-acre pond... (read more)
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