Carcasonne has a strange fortified city which looks medieval but was actually built in the mid 1800s. If you drive from there towards Andorra you come accross l

Carcasonne has a strange fortified city which looks medieval but was actually built in the mid 1800s. If you drive from there towards Andorra you come accross lots of old medieval villages with castles, such as this one in Foix: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Foix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Foix Aachen in Germany should probably be on the list - it was once the centre of Charlemagne's empire, but today it has been eclipsed by nearby Cologne and Bonn. It was bombed pretty badly during the war but the town hall and cathedral survived intact. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen