IF YOU GO

CARCASSONNE: tourism-carcassonne.co.uk/ LAS TOURS: chateauxdelastours.fr GETTING THERE, GETTING AROUND: Carcassonne is roughly a six-hour train ride from Paris, which will include a transfer. Tickets can be found here: https://en.voyages-sncf.com/en/. A tiny airport used exclusively by budget airline Ryanair is a 10-minute drive from the city centre. And Carcassonne can also be reached using Toulouse’s larger airport, about an hour away. The city is small enough to walk to all the sites. For adventures farther afield, it’s easy enough to rent a car.