Narbon is a charming town. Having arrived here with my spouse, I was not surprised for anything, why these places were still chosen by the ancient Romans. By the way, a lot of interesting things remained from the ancient Romans. My husband and I have not been using the services of guides for a very long time and there are a number of our advantages. First of all, there is a significant cash savings. In the second place, you feel a real pioneer, which in itself is already very interesting. Want to know what you can see in Narbonon? Then we went!
Palace of Archbishopov . The first thing I rushed into my eyes is that the palace consists of several parts. As it turned out to be their reasons. In times, when this palace was not even in the project, the bishops and canoniki were placed in buildings, which in turn were along the city wall. The dwellings of the bishops, unfortunately, but it was quite logical, began to come into low-cost state and simply speaking, they began to collapse. The authorities of the city, seeing this picture and hearing the constant complaints from the Holy Fathers, decided to reconstruct the entire ensemble as a whole. In the process of reconstruction, they combined the common facade of the Tower of St. Martzial and Donjon Zhilly Ossen. The finished facade fully corresponded to the Gothic style. But all this, only one part of the complex, the second is the new palace. This palace has four floors, a square shape, and four towers are worth the decoration around it. On the very top floor of the new palace, there is a weapon room, which is proudly called the "Hall". There is here and the old palace built in Romanesque style. To date, the Archaeological Museum is located in the old palace. Not far from the Synod Building, you can see the Tower of St. Martial. In the same Synod building, there is a terrace with a stunningly beautiful garden. At the time of the Middle Ages, the second floor of the structure, occupied the Archbishops, and now the Museum of History and Art is comfortable here.
Saint-Just Cathedral . The history of the construction of this cathedral is long and very interesting, but I will not describe all the misadventures of the construction, I will not only say that this action lasted the whole century. Construction of the Cathedral of Saint-Just in 1565 began, but it was finally complete, managed only in 1663. Until the moment the construction work began here on the construction of the cathedral, there was a centuries-old church in this very place, which was built in the fifth century, but it was completely destroyed during the wars on a religious field. The reminder of this church came to the present day in the form of an archaeological park, which is located near the cathedral of Saint-Just. The Multi-shake Cathedral of Saint-Just was able to construct in a single Gothic style. It is noteworthy that up to 1801, the cathedral was called the cathedral and was the residence of the Archbishop of the Diocese of Narbons. The abolition of the cathedral was due to the association with the Diocese of Carcassonne. To date, in the building of the cathedral, you can admire the stunning works of famous artists of France, and also look at the magnificent, bright and colorful stained glass windows of the nineteenth century.
Monastery Fofruad. . In the eleventh century, there was a real cycery catholic monastery, which founded Viscount Emery Narbonsky. In those days, the land of land adjacent to the monastery were assigned to luxurious vineyards. The whole complex of the monastery, like most of the buildings of the city, is made in the Romanesque style. From the thirteenth century and at our day, in its original form, the conversion building reached us. Conversions - residents of the monastery who belonged to Monastic Order. Now the monastery of the phonophouad is already as a whole century does not belong to the Catholic Church. Do you know why it happened? The thing is that in 1908 the building of the monastery was redeemed by a collector, an artist and the patron of a downtown. It was he who produced a large-scale reconstruction on the return of the monastery of the pristine appearance. To date, the monastery of Fofruad is private property, but everyone can visit him. In the monastery now there is a winery, and surround it as many centuries ago, magnificent vineyards. Even in the monastery, a wine restaurant is opened, a wine tasting room, and of course the shop in which you can buy you like Wine.
Shop "for french ladies" . Once near this ancient department store, I felt a sophisticated Frenchwoman. I also wanted, easy, soaring walking, go inside and start a fascinating shopping. Erect the department store for Frenchwoman, began in 1907. The grinding of the structure is that it is made in the style of Neurokko. It has an oblong shape and rounded corners, which are decorated in turn by domes. By the way, the architect Pavel Sédille worked on the creation of these domes. Face of department store, then you mean its facade decorated with sculptures and large windows. Now it is not a department store for French ladies at all, but still entrepreneurial activities are carried out here, truth under the brand name Monoprix.
Roman Road Domination . This is perhaps the most important attraction of the city, which all locals are proud of without exception. It is not surprising, since the construction of the road, it began one hundred and twenty-second year of our era on the orders of the Consul Gneja Domination Agenobarba. The length of the road for the standards was just incredible - about five hundred kilometers. The width of the road on different sites was different from six to twelve meters. The technology on which the road was built was quite severe and time consuming. The lowest layer, laid out with cobblestones, in order to ensure a good drainage system. Next was the layer of gravel and sand. The topmost layer is also posted from cobblestones, but only they are fixed with each other in contrast to the lowest layer, with the help of a special solution, which was made of sand and limestone. On both sides of the road were equipped with drain ditch. In those days, this road was very significant in terms of commerce. Over time, the road has become unusable and disappeared at all from the face of the earth.
In 1997, construction work was held on the city square during which the layer of tiles was removed, under which the builders found the area of the ancient Roman road.