Cathar Castles

All about #Cathar #Castles and other Cathar Sites in the Languedoc Information on Cathar beliefs & the Albigensian Crusade

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Puilaurens
One-week tour of Cathar sites in the Languedoc: covering Cathar beliefs, history, origins, crusade, & inquisition.
Dates: Saturday 21 June — Friday 27 June, 2025
Now taking bookings:
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or contact [email protected]

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You can now do a self-guided tour of the Cité of Carcassonne using the VoiceMap App. Highly Recommended. Check it out at https://t.co/LMIDKXrWlF

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Fontfroide.

One-week tour of Cathar Castles: covering Cathar beliefs, history, origins, crusade, inquisition.
Dates: 16-22 September 2023.

Now taking bookings: [email protected]

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James being interviewed on GRDiscovery about the Cathars of the Languedoc.

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Don't worry it's in English even if the intro is Greek!

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Cité de Carcassonne,
Aude, Languedoc (Occitanie), France.

The Cité of Carcassonne is the largest city in Europe with its medieval city walls still intact.

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Week-long tour of Cathar Castles in June 2023. See https://t.co/mzaoo0ENOc for details.

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I've started podcasting!

Here's a test Introduction to the Cathars: https://t.co/nvCcUFcrGE

Let me know what you think, and subscribe for more detailed podcasts if you're interested in learning more. Thanx.

More professional version to follow!

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Fontfroide.

One-week tour of Cathar Castles: covering Cathar beliefs, history, origins, crusade, inquisition.
Dates: 10-16 September 2022.
Now taking bookings: [email protected]

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Cité de Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc (Occitanie), France.

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Cathar Castle Tours restarting! Week-long tour of Cathar Castles in June 2021. See https://t.co/JTUfCAO3H8 for details

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Château de Montségur,
Ariege, Occitanie, France.

#OnThisDay
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On the morning of 16 March 1244, some 225 Cathars were burned alive here, without trial, by a Catholic army.

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Château de Montségur,
Ariege, Occitanie, France.

#OnThisDay

On the morning of 16 March 1244, some 225 Cathars were burned alive here, without trial, by the leaders of two Catholic Church armies and a French army.

See https://t.co/PN9mKNfIcY for 2020 Tours

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Château de Quéribus,
Cucugnan, Aude, Occianie, France.

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Quéribus is sometimes regarded as the last Cathar stronghold. After the fall of the Château of Montségur in 1244 surviving Cathars gathered together in the Corbières at this mountain-top stronghold.

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Château de Montségur,
Ariege, Occitanie, France.

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Montsegur was a Cathar refuge besieged for ten months by three Catholic armies from May 1243.

Places still available on the Spring tour of Cathar Castles: see https://t.co/pZabPHLKqG

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The Château de Puilaurens,
Lapradelle-Puilaurens, Aude, Occitanie, France.

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This is one of the Cathar Castles of the Languedoc in what is now the South of France.
Places still available on the Spring tour of Cathar Castles: see https://t.co/pZabPHLKqG

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Cité de Carcassonne,
Aude, Languedoc (Occitanie), France.

The Cité of Carcassonne is the largest city in Europe with its medieval city walls still intact.

https://t.co/PN9mKNfIcY

Week-long tour of Cathar Castles in June 2020. See https://t.co/pZabPHLKqG for details

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Fontfroide Abbey,
Corbieres, Languedoc, France.

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One-week tour of Cathar related sites in the Languedoc: covering Cathar beliefs, history, origins, crusade, inquisition ….. Bookings for June: contact [email protected]

Photo by Jan Monel.

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The castle at Villerouge Termenez in the Languedoc.

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This is a model of the castrum as it would have looked around 1300. The Archbishop of Narbonne burned alive here a man called Guilhem Bellibaste, the last known baptised Cathar in the Languedoc, in 1231

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Cité de Carcassonne,
Aude, Languedoc (Occitanie), France.

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Week-long tour of Cathar Castles in June 2020. See https://t.co/pZabPHLKqG for details

The Cité of Carcassonne is the largest city in Europe with its medieval city walls still intact.

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Château de Foix,
Foix, Ariège, France.

Places left for the week-long tour of Cathar Castles in June 2020. See https://t.co/pZabPHLKqG for details.

Built on an older 7th-century fortification, the castle is known from written records in 987.

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The town of Bram, Aude, France.

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A “circulade”, a medieval defensible walled town, besieged and taken by Catholic Crusaders in 1210, seeking to destroy Catharism. The defenders were blinded and had their lips and noses cut off by Simon de Montfort.

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Aude Gate,
Cité de Carcassonne,
Aude, Languedoc (Occitanie), France.

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One-week tour of Cathar Castles: covering Cathar beliefs, history, origins, crusade, inquisition …
Now taking bookings for September 2019