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On the Toulouse-Nice main train line, 25km west of Béziers, is NARBONNE , once the capital of Rome's first colony in Gaul, Gallia Narbonensis, and a thriving port and communications centre in classical times and again in the Middle Ages. Plague, war with the English and the silting-up of its harbor finished it off in the fourteenth century, though a tentative prosperity returned in the late nineteenth century with the birth of the modern wine industry. Today, despite the ominous presence of the Malvesi nuclear power plant just 5km out of town, it's a pleasant provincial city with a small but well-kept old town, dominated by the great truncated choir of its cathedral and bisected by a grassy esplanade on the banks of the Canal de la Robine.
In the summer of 1991 Narbonne acquired notoriety as a new flash point in France's continuing problems with its ethnic minorities, as the Harkis - Algerians who had enlisted in the French forces and fought with them against their own people in the Algerian war of independence in the late 1950s - began angrily to protest official neglect of their community. The discontent has rumbled on, the most recent manifestation being a sit-in outside the Mairie during the winter of 1997
The Town
One of the few Roman remnants in Narbonne is the Horreum, at the north end of rue Rouget-de-l'Isle (April-Sept daily 9.30am-12.15pm & 2-6pm; rest of year Tues-Sun 10am-noon & 2-5pm; 30F/?4.58, valid for three days and including entry to the museums in the Palais des Archévêques ), an unusual underground grain store divided into a series of small chambers leading off a rectangular passageway. At the opposite end of the same street, close to the attractive tree-lined banks of the Canal de la Robine, is Narbonne's other principal attraction, the enormous Gothic Cathédrale St-Just-et-St-Pasteur. With the Palais des Archévêques and its forty-meter keep, it forms a massive pile of masonry that completely dominates the restored lanes of the old town, and - like the cathedral of Béziers - can be seen for kilometers around. In spite of its size, it is actually only the choir of a much more ambitious church, whose construction was halted to avoid wrecking the city walls. The immensely tall interior has some beautiful fourteenth-century stained glass in the chapels on the northeast side of the apse and imposing Aubusson tapestries - one of the most valuable tapestries is kept in the Salle du Trésor (May-Dec Mon-Sat 10-11.45am & 2.30-5.30pm; 15F/?2.29), along with a small collection of ecclesiastical treasures. In summer the high north tower is open for a panoramic view of the surrounding vineyards (June-Sept daily 10am-5pm; rest of year by appointment only, tel 04.68.33.70.18; 15F/?1.53).
The adjacent place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville is dominated by the great towers of St-Martial, the Madeleine and Bishop Aycelin's keep. From there the passage de l'Ancre leads through to the Palais des Archévêques (Archbishops' Palace), housing a fairly ordinary museum of art and a good archeology museum (both museums have the same hours and tarifs as the Horreum), whose interesting Roman remains include a massive 3.5-metre wood and lead ship's rudder, and a huge mosaic. Across into the southern part of the town, beyond the bisecting Canal de la Robine and the built-over Pont des Marchands, the small early Christian crypt of the church of St-Paul, off rue de l'Hôtel-Dieu (Mon-Sat 9am-noon & 2-6pm; free), is worth a quick look, as is the eerily empty deconsecrated church of Notre-Dame-de-Lamourguié. |
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