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===Narbonne Cathedral===
[[File:Narbonne. 3 - Fonds Trutat - 51Fi391.jpg|thumb|right|The city of Narbonne in the late 19th century]]
[[File:Cathedrale-inachevee.JPG|right|thumb|Part of the unfinished section of the [[Narbonne Cathedral|Cathedral Saint-Just-et-Saint-Pasteur]]]]

The [[Narbonne Cathedral]], dedicated to [[Saints Justus and Pastor]], provides stark evidence of Narbonne's sudden and dramatic change of fortunes when one sees at the rear of the structure the enormously ambitious building programme frozen in time, for the cathedral—still one of the tallest in France—was never finished. The reasons are many, but the most important is that completing the cathedral would have required demolishing the city wall. The 14th century also brought the plague and a host of reasons for retaining the pre-Visigothic, 5th-century walls. Yet the choir, side chapels, sacristy, and courtyard remain intact, and the cathedral, although no longer the seat of a bishop or archbishop, remains the primary place of worship for the Roman Catholic population of the city, and is a major tourist attraction.