Walking in the Cathar Region

Cathar Castles of south-west France

Nonfiction, Sports, Walking, Outdoors, Hiking
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Author: Alan Mattingly ISBN: 9781849658539
Publisher: Cicerone Press Publication: June 10, 2013
Imprint: Cicerone Press Language: English
Author: Alan Mattingly
ISBN: 9781849658539
Publisher: Cicerone Press
Publication: June 10, 2013
Imprint: Cicerone Press
Language: English

The guide offers 30 walks based on the once strategically important castles that dominate the foothills of the Pyrenees. Each walk has as its focal point a castle or other location associated with Cathar history (mostly the 13th century). Summaries of the historical connections of each location with the Cathar period are given, and together these relate the story of the downfall of the Cathar Church, from the massacre in Béziers in 1209 to the siege at Montsègur in 1244, which ended with the burning alive of over 200 believers who refused to renounce their Cathar faith.

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The guide offers 30 walks based on the once strategically important castles that dominate the foothills of the Pyrenees. Each walk has as its focal point a castle or other location associated with Cathar history (mostly the 13th century). Summaries of the historical connections of each location with the Cathar period are given, and together these relate the story of the downfall of the Cathar Church, from the massacre in Béziers in 1209 to the siege at Montsègur in 1244, which ended with the burning alive of over 200 believers who refused to renounce their Cathar faith.

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