The Aude has 17 circular villages or circulades, in other words, built in a circle around a church or a castle.
Bram
Today is a historical curiosity of Carcassonne that we present. We have for sale a house in the exclusive rue de Verdun. This house was once a pond water distribution.
It is in a valley in the typical Mediterranean vegetation, surrounded by a rocky valley in the Corbières near Narbonne that nestles Fontfroide Abbey (from the Occitan Font Freda, heat sink), sumptuous Cistercian founded in the late eleventh century.
Having toured the main Cathar castles, start to discover the Cathar Trail which allows Foix rally from Port-la-New 12-step feasible hiking on foot but also mountain bike or horseback.
Corbières
Located 50 km from Carcassonne, in the Corbières, in the heart of the Village, the château de Villerouge Terménès (in Occitan Vilaroja of Termenés) whose mass requires compliance date of the twelfth century.
Located on the border between the Aude and Ariège, Castle Usson (in Occitan: Lo Castèl de So) shows the unity of the territory formerly known as Cathar Country. Located in Canton Quérigut often referred to as “Québec Ariège” emerges from the fortress tall trees Pyrenees.
In the heart of Montagne Noire, north-west of Carcassonne, the château de Saissac floor terraces in front of a unique landscape on the horizon blocked by the Pyrenees. It was the residence of a powerful family of Trencavel vassal.
Located between Foix and Lavelanet in the Ariege, the château de Roquefixade whose existence is attested from 1034 served as a refuge and place of resistance to the Albigenses in the thirteenth century.
Clinging to the rocky outcrop of limestone Cucugnan 5 km, in the Corbières, the Château de Padern dominates the village of the same name and monitors Verdouble Gorge.
Paths to get there is very steep, the book was virtually impregnable.
The château de Miglos also castle château d’Arquizat is located on the top of a limestone outcrop at 779 meters in the Ariège Pyrenees. Located on the town of Miglos, just above the town of Capoulet, he commanded both the valleys and Miglos Vicdessos.
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