We stopped at Musée
Camargue and walked along paths through the area showing pastures and
marshland.
We are staying at medieval Aigués-Mortes. Louis IX built the largest tower in eight years [started 1204] as he wanted a seaport fast. His son finished construction in early 1300. The town was planned on a rectangular grid [bastide] with tax exemptions for people to move there and was finally filled up in the 19C. Louis had a canal cut to the sea to get his ships in and out.
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