Cathar Castles

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: More information at catharcountry.info or contact tours@catharcountry.info

You can now do a self-guided tour of the Cité of Carcassonne using the VoiceMap App. Highly Recommended. Check it out at voicemap.me/carcassona

Fontfroide. One-week tour of Cathar Castles: covering Cathar beliefs, history, origins, crusade, inquisition. Dates: 16-22 September 2023. Now taking bookings: tours@catharcountry.info

James being interviewed on GRDiscovery about the Cathars of the Languedoc. youtube.com/watch?v=BxLtKc… Don't worry it's in English even if the intro is Greek!

Cité de Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc (Occitanie), France. The Cité of Carcassonne is the largest city in Europe with its medieval city walls still intact. catharcountry.info Week-long tour of Cathar Castles in June 2023. See catharcountry.info/Week.html for details.

I've started podcasting! Here's a test Introduction to the Cathars: youtube.com/watch?v=tCmdy9… 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!

Fontfroide. One-week tour of Cathar Castles: covering Cathar beliefs, history, origins, crusade, inquisition. Dates: 10-16 September 2022. Now taking bookings: tours@catharcountry.info

Cité de Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc (Occitanie), France. catharcountry.info Cathar Castle Tours restarting! Week-long tour of Cathar Castles in June 2021. See catharcountry.info/Week.html for details

Château de Montségur, Ariege, Occitanie, France. #OnThisDay catharcountry.info On the morning of 16 March 1244, some 225 Cathars were burned alive here, without trial, by a Catholic army.

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 catharcountry.info for 2020 Tours

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

Château de Montségur, Ariege, Occitanie, France. catharcountry.info 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 catharcountry.info/Week.html

The Château de Puilaurens, Lapradelle-Puilaurens, Aude, Occitanie, France. catharcountry.info 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 catharcountry.info/Week.html

Cité de Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc (Occitanie), France. The Cité of Carcassonne is the largest city in Europe with its medieval city walls still intact. catharcountry.info Week-long tour of Cathar Castles in June 2020. See catharcountry.info/Week.html for details

Fontfroide Abbey, Corbieres, Languedoc, France. catharcountry.info One-week tour of Cathar related sites in the Languedoc: covering Cathar beliefs, history, origins, crusade, inquisition ….. Bookings for June: contact tours@catharcountry.info Photo by Jan Monel.

The castle at Villerouge Termenez in the Languedoc. catharcountry.info 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

Cité de Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc (Occitanie), France. catharcountry.info Week-long tour of Cathar Castles in June 2020. See catharcountry.info/Week.html for details The Cité of Carcassonne is the largest city in Europe with its medieval city walls still intact.

Château de Foix, Foix, Ariège, France. Places left for the week-long tour of Cathar Castles in June 2020. See catharcountry.info/Week.html for details. Built on an older 7th-century fortification, the castle is known from written records in 987.

The town of Bram, Aude, France. catharcountry.info 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.

Aude Gate, Cité de Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc (Occitanie), France. catharcountry.info One-week tour of Cathar Castles: covering Cathar beliefs, history, origins, crusade, inquisition … Now taking bookings for September 2019