Kil. Miles. =Carcassonne= to Capendu =18= 11¼ =Capendu= to Lézignan =17= 10½ =Lézignan= to Narbonne =22= 13½ =Narbonne= to Coursan =7= 4½ =Coursan= to Béziers =18= 11¼ =Béziers= to Pézenas =22= 13½ =Pézenas= to Mèze =18= 11¼ [=Béziers= to Mèze by Agde =42= 26] =Mèze= to Montpellier =30= 18½ NOTES FOR DRIVERS Practically a level road as far as =Béziers=; after that hilly to =Mèze=. PLACES OF INTEREST ON THE ROUTE =Carcassonne.=--A dual town: the ancient one, generally called La Cité, is the most perfectly preserved medieval walled city in France; fifty-four towers in the walls and castle; Cathedral of St. Nazaire, twelfth to fourteenth century--a lovely building; one of the bridges across the Aude medieval also. Modern town founded in thirteenth century; churches of--(1) St. Michael, now the cathedral, and (2) St. Vincent, fourteenth century. =Barbaira.=--A village with ruined château. =Moux.=--Is not interesting. =Lézignan.=--A small commonplace town; church, fourteenth century. =Narbonne.=--A large town, with great wine business; Roman remains in museum; Cathedral of St. Just, an enormous unfinished building, consisting of a thirteenth-century choir, a fragmentary nave, chapter-house, and cloisters; Archbishop’s Palace, now the Hôtel de Ville, has fourteenth-century towers; the museum is in the Benedictine house of Lamourguier; churches of--(1) St. Paul-Serge, (2) St. Sébastien. =Coursan.=--A small town, with busy wine trade; bridge of fifteenth century. =Béziers.=--An important town; the centre of the wine trade of the Midi; stands on raised plateau above the Orb; thirteenth-century bridge; aqueduct of the Midi Canal, and churches of--(1) St. Nazaire, (2) St. Jacques, (3) La Madelaine, (4) St. Aphrodise. =Pézenas.=--A small town, with fifteenth-century gateway and several old houses. =Montagnac.=--A dreary little town in a pleasant, hilly country. =Mèze.=--A town on the Etang-de-Thau; fourteenth-century church of no interest. =Gigean.=--An uninteresting village. Carcassonne was for a long period a dual town, and even to-day, when the original city is mainly an historical monument, it contains a considerable [Illustration: TOWN PLAN NO. 17.--CARCASSONNE.]