The Legendary Carcasonne Castle

After two days of riding down the Canal du Midi we were riding across the
bridge to our hotel in Carcassonne when we looked around and then and
there we saw an immensely huge castle looming up on the hill in front of
us and I about fell of the back of my bike in shock. It was just like all
of the paintings of castles with the towers and the walls with bow slots.
The next day we went into it. For the first part it looked like any old
European city until we got to the end of the street when again we see the
huge towering walls and I'm reminded we are in a castle. At 2:45pm we go
to the inner castle to take a tour around the walls. It was amazing and
there were holes in the walls where they could have dropped their stones
or explosives or what ever they had down on the enemy. After that we went
on a tour of the inside of the inner castle and walked around more of the
ramprts. I will never forget that day in the Castle of Carcassonne.

The Story
The Franks and The Saracens were fighting a very bloody battle with the
Franks laying seige to The Saracens who were in the Carcassonne Castle.
They were one week into the battle and the Saracens were down to
starvation and the woman leader of the Saracens, Carcas, had the people
of the town sweep up the last of the corn and stuff it down a pig. She
then had them throw the pig out at the enemy who then thought that if the
people in the castle had been under seige for 1 week and were still
feeding the pigs corn that it would take weeks to take over the castle.
The Franks then started retreating. The Saracens then invited the head
honcho of the Franks in to have a feast and then the two leaders married
and Carcas, the leader of the Saracens, rang the town bells and every one
shouted Carcas rings which translates to Carcassonne in French, which is
the legend of how the city got its name.

Thats it for now folks.
Erich