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    THE OTHER SOUTH OF FRANCE

    by MITCH MOXLEY Jul 18, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: The Canal du Midi, a 17th-century engineering marvel.

    The medieval fortress in Carcassonne, one of France’s most popular tourist destinations.

    Never heard of Occitanie? That’s forgivable, because as of last year it didn’t even exist. When parliament recently reduced the country’s regions by nearly half, the area formerly called Languedoc- Roussillon joined with Midi-Pyrénées, located in France’s southwest corner next to Spain, to become Occitanie. (The term, which dates to the Middle Ages, refers to a large southern European realm

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