The lower town contains the official buildings and two or three churches, but these are of little interest.

The town's funicular will take you between the upper and lower town.

It's a funny little low town, built on boggy ground.

On the first day, the Parliamentarians took the lower town.

The lower town used to be the quarter of merchants and craftsmen.

A further chapel stood in the lower town by 1350.

The same was true of the new, or lower, town added to Carcassonne in 1247.

The building is now an imposing ruin overlooking the lower town.

The lower town was partly built on land reclaimed from the sea.

On the south side is the old lower town, constructed by the Spanish.