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Overview:
Narbonne, France, On the
Toulouse–Nice main train line, 25km west of Beziers, is Narbonne,
once the capital of Rome's first colony in Gaul, Gallia
Narbonensis, and a thriving port and communications centre in
classical times and again in the Middle Ages. Plague, war with
the English and the silting-up of its harbor finished it off in
the fourteenth century, though a tentative prosperity returned
in the late nineteenth century with the birth of the modern wine
industry. Today, despite the ominous presence of the Malvesi
nuclear power plant just 5km out of town, it's a pleasant
provincial city with a small but well-kept old town, dominated
by the great truncated choir of its cathedral and bisected by a
grassy esplanade on the banks of the Canal de la Robine.
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