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D611 r a Leucate D10 Aguilar P Leucate- Fitou Plage D627 Tuchan D627 D14 Padern D14 Paziols GORGES DE GALAMUS Étang Duilhac- D611 Port-Leucate Cucugnan de sous-Peyrepertuse Quéribus Perpignan SPAIN Leucate ou de Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet Le Bacarès Tautavel Salses Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet LEGEND Abbey - Church Castle Pyrénées National Heritage Site DUBLIN Orientales KOBENHAVN World Heritage Site LONDON AMSTERDAM Train BERLIN Chef lieu of canton PARIS Commune - ZÜRICH Tourist Attraction Seaside Resort Highway AUDE Main Road CACASSONNE BARCELONNE Secondary Road ROME (1st an d 2d category) Secondary Road (3st category) Cathar Path 11 Medieval city of Carcassonne. © Claudio Giovanni COLOMBO – Shutterstock.com 14 MUST-SEES It was made between 1667 and 1694 and two thousand Les châteaux cathares workers were hired from January 1667. This number rose to twelve thousand, including six hundred women, to Mentioned for the first time in written sources in the alleviate the shortage of men. The work was carried out 11th century, Arques was then qualified as villa, i.e. in three major projects: the first from Toulouse to Trèbes village, in the form of Villa de Archas. However, the (east of Carcassonne) which includes the basins and current village has retained a noble tower that is now the water supply systems, the second towards the south bell tower of the church. Arques was not an important of Trèbes to the pond of Thau, and the third that was stronghold when the Crusade against the Albigensian the construction of the harbour of Sète. To address started in 1209. It seems that Simon de Montfort took the problem of leveling throughout the course, more possession of the village after the fall of Château de than 60 locks had to be built, Riquet was perfectly Termes during summer 1210. In 1260, Arques was sold conscious of helping to forge a symbol of the power to Pierre de Voisins, former fellow soldier of Simon de of the 17th-century France, while giving the country a Montfort. His descendants decided to settle there, near functional communication channel. He thus particularly the village, at the end of the 13th century. Around 1280, made sure that the quality of the canal’s architecture is they built a fortified house, noble residence, of which worthy of this function. The bridges, the locks and the only the dungeon remains today. Listed as a historical structures associated with them, as well as the tunnel monument in 1887, this fortified house was built at entrances were designed and drawn with a great sense of the edge of the forest of Rialsesse. 11 metres side and aesthetic combined with technical constraints, the whole 25 metres high, it is a masterpiece of Gothic art and includes no less than 328 works of art and 63 locks. He military architecture. The four floors are open to visitors, was also extremely conscious of the impact of his work just like the two floors of the home tower located at the on the landscape and took great care to ensure that it South-West corner of the outer wall. Small quizzes are was properly bordered by trees and by vegetation in displayed in each room to make the visit of children more harmony with the landscapes crossed. Since 1996, this ludic. The idea is to develop! You can end your visit by performance has rightly been listed as a UNESCO World a stop at the castle’s honey shop which is made up of Heritage site.Having the width of 10 to 20 meters and several gourmet attractions. You can also go through the deep of about 2 meters, the canal passes to its highest museum dedicated to “Catharism nowadays”, located in point at the threshold of Naurouze, at the border of the the house where Déodat Roché’s (1887-1978), one of the department of Aude and Haute Garonne in the Lauragais. first historians of catharism, was born. Its history with Carcassonne was quite complex since, at CHÂTEAU DE QUÉRIBUS the completion of the first route, the canal was 2 kilo- 1, rue Achille-Mir meters from the city. A link between the city and the CUCUGNAN canal was suggested in 1686 by Vauban but it was only & +33 (0)4 68 45 03 69 a century later, in 1787, that the construction of a new www.queribuscucugnan.fr route was ordered and was completed in 1810 and that [email protected] wouldl definitely set the canal in its current configuration.