Cité of Carcassonne
This fortified medieval city, whose origins date back to the Gallo-Roman period, owes its fame to its double enclosure, reaching almost 3 km in length and comprising fifty-two [...]
Carcassonne Cathedral
The construction of the Saint-Michel Cathedral in Carcassonne began in 1247 by order of King Louis IX. It will be enlarged from 1283. During the fire of 1355, [...]
St. Vincent Church
Saint Vincent Church: Saint-Vincent Church is one of two churches in Carcassonne, it was built in 1269, its nave is 60m long, 27 wide and 20.5 high. [See [...]
Church of Trebes
Church of Trèbes: Gothic church of the 13th century with a particularity: a false vault of plaster warheads built on the nave in 1860 partially collapsed in 1980. [...]
Lastours castles
The Lastours castles (in Occitan Las Tors, lit. 'The towers') are four castles in Cathar country built on a rocky outcrop above the village of Lastours, isolated by [...]
Caunes Abbey
The Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul de Caunes-Minervois abbey is a former Benedictine abbey, whose Romanesque remains are located in the town of Caunes-Minervois in the French department of Aude in the [...]
Fontfroide Abbey
Fontfroide Abbey is a Cistercian abbey located in the commune of Narbonne in the Aude department in France. Initially a Benedictine abbey (1093), it became part of the [...]
Abbey of Saint-Papoul
This Benedictine abbey was founded in the 7th century and is closely linked to the martyrdom of Saint Papour, disciple of Saint Sernin, first bishop of Toulouse. In [...]
Abbaye Sainte-Marie of Lagrasse
The primitive monastery, founded at an unknown date, was rebuilt by Abbot Nimphibius in 779 in a place then called “Novalius”. The new abbey receives the protection of [...]
Abbey of Saint-Hilaire
The abbey is built on the former site of the chapel of Saint-Hilaire, the first bishop of Carcassonne. Saint-Hilaire evangelized the Carcassès region in the 6th century. The [...]
The castle of Queribus
The castle of Quéribus is perched on a rocky peak at 728 meters above sea level, dominates the village of Cucugnan and is located on the border of [...]
Peyrepertuse Castle
The Château de Peyrepertuse is located on a limestone ridge at nearly 800 m altitude, at the top of a hill which separates Duilhac from the village of [...]
Aguilar Castle
The castle of Aguilar dates perhaps from the 12th century, the construction of which continued during the 13th and 14th centuries. A feudal castle in the hands of [...]
Puivert Castle
Puivert Castle is a Cathar castle set on a hill overlooking the village of Puivert and its lake, at an altitude of 605 meters. The construction dates from [...]
Saissac Castle
The castle of Saissac dominates on its rocky promontory the ravine of the Vernassonne, which gives it an important strategic position at the entrance to the Black Mountain. [...]
Church of the Assumption
The 12th century Romanesque church, in a heptagonal rotunda, whose dome is supported by 7 arcades arranged in a circle, makes it a unique monument in the world. [...]
The mill of Pech-Rouzaud
The mill was built in a place called Pech-Rouzaud to complete an existing water mill in Villeneuve-Minervois. It was restored in 2001. You can see a demonstration of [...]
Le Canal du Midi
Le Canal du Midi, which passes close to our home, can give rise to several activities. For example, 6 cruises on the Canal du Midi are offered to [...]
The Caves of Limousis
Discovered in 1811, the caves of Limousis reveal over 600m of galleries, 8 rooms, 5 stalagmitic barriers and many geological and mineralogical curiosities. (See Wikipedia article) [...]
Chasm of Cabrespine
Giant chasm (250m deep) dug by an underground river which emerges 17km further at Lastours. The fitted part “the devil's balcony” allows us to admire concretions in splendid [...]
Nautical base of Puichéric
Nautical base located in Puichéric in Aude in Cathar Country, a site still unknown but very rich in discovery between Corbières and Minervois, between Mountain and Coastline, between [...]