The Pont Vieux is the fourteenth-century stone bridge that links the Bastide to the Cité across the Aude. Twelve arches, pedestrian-only since the nineteenth century, and the best place in the city for the classic photograph of the walls rising from the river.
A small octagonal stone shrine — the Croix de Mission — stands at the centre. The view changes completely with the light: cold and grey in winter morning, gold and theatrical at sunset.