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Carcassonne 🇬🇧🇫🇷
Some cities get lucky. Carcassonne got strategic positioning. The result was two thousand years of invasions, crusades, and general unpleasantness—interrupted only by brief periods of prosperity and the occasional flying pig. Click here to find out more…
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