Here's my guide to visiting the UNESCO-listed town of Carcassonne. The town is a breathtaking and well-preserved 13th century fantasy world of towers, turret, and stout walls. It's one of the top attractions and best things to do in southern France.
PP with flypaper Textures! www.routledge.com/books/details/9781408255506/ My adopted home city in France from one afternoon last autumn!
In March of 1208, Pope Innocent III preached the Albigensian Crusade. The crusade, which covered an area from Agen to Avignon and the Pyrenees to Cahors, initiated a new phase in the already strained relationship between the Catholic Church and the Languedoc.
Can you guess who this Pope from the Middle Ages is?
“January 15th is the feast of Blessed Peire de Castelnou: Occitan cleric, Archdeacon of Magalona, Cistercian monk, theologian, canonist, legate to Pope Innocent III, anti-Cathar inquisitor, and martyr—assassinated on this day in A.D. 1208, triggering the Albigensian Crusade.”
Cité de Carcassonne, Languedoc, France. http://www.castlesandmanorhouses.com/photos.htm The Castrum of Raymond Roger Trencavel, Viscount of Carcassonne, Béziers, Albi and the Razès. He died in his own...
Château de Montségur, Ariege, Occitanie, France. www.catharcountry.info/tour__montsegur.htm This is a model of Montségur III as it would have looked when built in the thirteenth century, on the site...
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