Carcassonne, a magnificent thousand-year-old city of the South of France, is rich of its medieval heritage and of its typical and its typical art of living of the region. During your stay in this fortified city fortified city, we have selected for you 15 ideas of outings to do, to spend a to spend a wonderful stay and to finish a day of visits in beauty! in style!
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The medieval city
The good idea to finish a beautiful day in day in Carcassonne is to stroll through the narrow streets of the medieval city perched on a hill and surrounded by ramparts. You will be able to admire the medieval architecture at your own pace and enjoy the many bars and and restaurants at your disposal!
If you have already visited this thousand-year-old part of the city during the day, we still invite you to go back in the early evening, because the atmosphere is quite different than when it is daytime: already, the horde of tourists is gone, things seem calmer, livelier, serene too. And the lights projected on the ramparts and the other historical monuments are simply breathtaking!
Address : La Cité Médiévale, 11000 Carcassonne
Website : https://www.tourisme-carcassonne.fr/decouvrir/la-cite-medievale
The Jean Deschamps Theater
In the old town, we also recommend you the Jean Deschamps Theater: an open-air theater that hosts open air, it hosts the Carcassonne Festival during the summer and offers a nice and offers a nice program during the year!
In the form of an open-air amphitheater amphitheater, it welcomes no less than 5000 spectators who come to admire concerts of popular music but also opera or a play theater. And what could be better than such a stage with the ramparts of the old city as a backdrop? of the old city?
Address: 1 Place Saint-Nazaire, 11000 Carcassonne
Website : http://www.carcassonne-tourisme.com/carcassonne2.nsf/vueTitre/DocPatrimoineTheatreCite5
The Wine Bar
A warm place in the heart of of the Cité de Carcassonne which has a pleasant terrace and which serves good cocktails.
It also serves nice and copious plates of local products for prices that are quite affordable considering the affordable for the place where it is located. It also has a beautiful shaded garden in which you can relax after a good meal!
Address : 5 Rue du Plo, 11000 Carcassonne
Website: http: //lebaravins.fr/
The blaze of the Cité
If you are in Carcassonne during the 14th of July, we encourage you to attend the “embrasement de la Cité”, a a pyrotechnical show where sublime fireworks are shot from the ramparts of the medieval of the medieval city perched on a hill, shining in the sky and illuminating the medieval city with a thousand lights!
In order to make the most of this magical moment magic moment, we recommend you not to arrive too late on the spot (the lights are fired from 10:30 pm onwards) and to position yourself below the medieval the medieval city, because you will be able to appreciate the “blazing” effect that makes the old city glow!
The Carcassonne Festival
Always in July, during the festival of Carcassonne, a cultural highlight in the old town where you can enjoy presented in the old town where you can find all kinds of artistic and musical artistic and musical scenes. There is really something for everyone: whether you are a whether you are a big fan of opera, pop music, jazz or metal, you can simply stroll simply stroll from stage to stage!
The most prestigious of them is undoubtedly the Jean Deschamps theater, built in the form of an amphitheater, which can welcome not less than 5000 spectators, with the ramparts of the medieval city as a backdrop.
Address: 10 Rue Saint-Louis, 11000 Carcassonne
Website: http: //www.festivaldecarcassonne.fr/
The Canal du Midi
We strongly suggest, during your stay in Carcassonne, to go along the banks of the Canal du Midi (there is a (there is a parking lot near the train station) for beautiful walks along the waterfront with a view of the medieval city!
On hot summer days, this walk along the waterfront will be welcome! You can also go to to the Bellevue garden or the Camin del Garric park, two green spaces that along the canal.
Address: Promenade du Canal, 11000 Carcassonne
Website: https: //www.tourisme-carcassonne.fr/decouvrir/le-canal-du-midi
L’Artichaut
L’Artichaut is a warm restaurant restaurant with a varied menu of fresh products, not forgetting the the unavoidable local cassoulet! It is located in the bastide Saint-Louis, not far from the Fine Arts museum and the Saint-Vincent church. A effort of presentation of the dishes is made here without making the price of the the price of the products served exorbitant, and the staff is known to be welcoming.
Address : 14 Place Carnot, 11000 Carcassonne
Website : https://www.facebook.com/Lartichaut-134476457216814/
The city walls
At the end of the evening, don’t hesitate to walk on the ramparts of the medieval city (entrance from the Comtal castle) to have a breathtaking panorama of the old city on the old city, the surrounding countryside and the Pyrenees in the background! pyrenees in the background!
You will be able to admire the heart of the old town emptied of its tourists during the day and enjoy the calm and freshness of the early evening. The lights projected on the historical buildings are simply magnificent!
Address: All around the medieval city
Site Internet : http://www.remparts-carcassonne.fr/
Méli et Zéli
In the heart of the medieval city medieval city, we advise you to eat in this restaurant where a where local cuisine is served in a relaxed setting made of stones and exposed beams exposed beams.
From the starter to the dessert, all the served here are homemade! The quality in the plate does not prevent the affordable prices of the delights offered on the menu. The restaurant also has a nice a nice terrace.
Address : 2 Place Saint-Jean, 11000 Carcassonne
Website: https: //melietzeli.fr/
Le Créneau
With a view on the Comtal castle, the terrace of Le Créneau is a privileged place in which to enjoy a good meal! The dishes served in this restaurant are made with regional products regional products. The dishes are copious and the service is pleasant. The cassoulet they serve here is famous, so if you want to taste the local local gastronomy, this is the place to go!
Address: 6 Place Saint-Jean, 11000 Carcassonne
Website: https: //restaurant-lecreneau.com/
The snail garden
Right next to the museum of museum, still in the heart of the old town, you will find Le garden of the snail, a small restaurant which proposes to its customers a menu for not too much money with good products and good wine. It serves delicious tapas, for those who are not very hungry or to start the evening!
Address : 4 Rue Saint-Jean, 11000 Carcassonne
The PLUGG*D
The PLUGG*D is one of the best tapas bars in the city of Carcassonne! Located rather on the side of the bastide Saint-Louis, it runs along the river Aude.
Theme evenings are regularly organized there regularly organized, for those who like to party and dance! In love or between friends, it is a lively and cordial place that you strongly recommend!
Address : 2 Boulevard Paul Sabatier, 11000 Carcassonne
Website : https://www.facebook.com/PLUGGDbar/
A walk in the park Camin del Garric
What better way to end a day rich in day rich in discoveries and visits by a walk in the green lung of Carcassonne? of Carcassonne? The Camin del Garric park is the perfect place for this! for that!
Located below the hill of the medieval city of the medieval city, it will offer you beautiful walking paths along the perfect for enjoying the coolness at the end of the day.
Address: Camin del Garric, 11000 Carcassonne
Website: https: //www.pres-dici.com/sorties/parc-jardin/
Le Café de nuit
Not far from the train station and the port of Of Carcassonne, and especially on the banks of the Canal du Midi, the Café de Nuit is a two-story discotheque with bar, dance floor and DJs in which we suggest you to enter if we suggest you enter if you like to dance!
It faces the port of Port of Carcassonne and is located not far from a cab rank: perfect for perfect for getting home safely!
Address: 31 Boulevard Omer Sarraut, 11000 Carcassonne
Website: https: //www.facebook.com/lecafedenuitcarcassonne
The Black Discotheque
Located a little further out of town of the city, at the western end of the Charlemagne district, Le Black Discothèque is a rather chic nightclub where you have to be dressed for the occasion. Otherwise, the atmosphere is excellent, and there is even a patio where you can relax! you can relax! This inner courtyard even welcomes from time to time groups that come to perform on stage for the greatest happiness of the customers! of the customers!
Address: Route de Limoux, 11000 Carcassonne
Website : http://www.complexe-leblack.fr/
Website : https://restaurant-lescargot.com/
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