The Aude has 17 circular villages or circulades, in other words, built in a circle around a church or a castle.
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Overlooking the Olmes perched on the “Pog” to 1207 meters in the heart of the Ariege, the castle of Montsegur, built in 1206, is a castle called Cathars. He was implanted at the site leveled the old fortified village which was, until the siege of 1244, place of Cathar resistance and faydits (knights and lords Languedoc dispossessed of their land).
The castle of Termes, located 40 km south east of Carcassonne dominates the High Corbières from its limestone promontory. Surrounded by steep slopes on three sides, the castle is accessible only by its southern face. It consists of two concentric walls, and included a dungeon that are perceived as more sections of wall collapsed.
Continue exploring the Cathar castles with today Puilaurens Castle, Castel Puèglhaurenç in Occitan.
Located in the town of Lapradelle-Puilaurens in the department of Aude the castle is perched on a rocky outcrop (Ardu Mount) overlooking the valley of the Boulzane to 697 meters. He locked the doors and Fenouillèdes son was one of five of the city of Carcassonne.
This is the first article in a series devoted to the incredible richness of the cultural heritage of the Aude.
Today let’s go in the Corbières, at Cucugnan to visit the Cathar castle of Quéribus, the last to be fallen into the hands of the Crusaders in 1255.
The mayor and the residents of the village of Upper Aude Valley bugarach no longer laugh: more and more illuminated peaple come on pilgrimage to the Pech of Bugarach, the only place allegedly spared from the end of the world in 2012…
« We will all die! » « The aliens are coming to us, ooh, ooh! » The music of mp3 at background, the two teenagers sitting in front of city hall deserted are nicely boxed the journalist who just stopped in the village. Freezing cold, empty streets, Bugarach, barely 200 souls, purring at the foot of the eponymous Pech, dozing between Christmas and New Year’s Day. Town Hall? Closed. Restaurant bar? Closed. House of nature? Closed. And please do not talk about end of the world.
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