After dropping Audrey at the Toulouse airport this morning, we went to the train station for our 8:45 train to Narbonne. We have visited Narbonne several times in years past, and are happy to return. Just after we arrived, we had a coffee and croissant under the trees along the Canal in the center of Narbonne, after seeing the Archbishop’s Palace Museum and the Via Domitia (ancient Roman road). We took a walk through the west side of Narbonne, to Les Halles (the covered Market), and to Saint-Paul Basilica, where we explored an ancient paleo Christian underground cemetery from the 3rd and 4th centuries. We had lunch at Le Petit Comptoir, a Michelin recommended restaurant that we recommend also. Lunch was delicious!
After lunch, we talk a walk on the east side of Narbonne, visiting Saint-Just and Saint-Pasteur Cathedral, built between 1272 and 1340, but never finished. We went to the Roman Horreum, built during the 1st century BC, they are underground galleries thought to be an ancient marketplace. We saw Saint-Sebastien Church, built in the 15th century in flamboyant Gothic style, and used as a Carmelite convent chapel until the French Revolution.
