Door to nowhere!

Now spending a few days in SW France at Gruissan, a resort town and a village in the Gulf of Lion located in the urban area of Narbonne , between the Massif Clape and the Mediterranean Sea . It consists of an old, circular village whose streets flow around a large block of limestone on which lie the remains of an ancient castle , the tower Barbarossa (Red Beard) . Dating back to pre 1084, the history of Gruissan is intimately linked to the Archbishop of Narbonne , who was the lord of Gruissan and its castle in Roman times and was a centre of strategic defence of the port of Narbonne .

At the end of the twentieth century, a new marina, constructed as part of the interministerial committee for the tourism development of the coastline of the Languedoc-Roussillon area, prompted a regeneration of the town which has become the main resort in the department of Aude . This blip is typical of the renovation of many of the old buildings in the old village. I'm not sure if this old doorway will be used again when the building work is completed, but I hope so as I like the merging of the old and the new, but I hope, and I'm sure they will, cover the bricks with a more traditional finish.