Narbonne - Cathedral of St Just

In Narbonne, on the north side of the Town Hall is the imposing Cathedral of St-Just, with a magnificent choir (at 41 m/135ft one of the highest and largest in France) built between 1272 and 1332 in a bold North French Gothic style; the rest of the building remained unfinished. It has beautiful stained glass (14th C.) and a rich treasury (tapestries, goldsmith's work).

In the southwest of the town is the Early Gothic church of St-Paul-Serge (12th-13th C.), with a fine choir and furnishings. In the Crypte Archéologique are the excavated remains of an Early Christian necropolis (fourth C.). A little way east is the Maison des Trois Nourrices (House of the Three Nurses), a 16th C. house in Renaissance style in which Cinq-Mars, one of