Travel in Cathar country
From the Mediterranean to the Pyrenees: Cathar
country, castles, abbeys...
For a day, for a weekend, for a week:
Meet and get to know wine makers, cheese makers and bee keepers and taste their
products.
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- Beaches and boat-trips
- Lagrasse, officially one of the "most beautiful villages of France", with its Abbey
- Abbey of Fontfroide
- Medieval city of Carcassonne, World Heritage site
- Narbonne, one-time Roman port
- Cathar castles... Quéribus, Peyrepertuse
- Montolieu, the "book village"
- Minerve, where the last Cathars were burned at the stake
- Trips on the Canal du Midi, World Heritage site with 360km of navigable waterway linking the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
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Musuems
- Tautavel, an important centre for European prehistory
- Garparets: Natural History Museum for wildlife and flowers
- Espéraza: Museum of dinosaurs and Museum of hat-making
- Folk museums and more...
Gîtes Vacances, Mairie, 11200 Camplong d’Aude
tel : 04 68 43 60 72, fax : 04 68 43 69 62
email : mairie-camplong@orange.fr
1st prize for eco-tourism 1993
Aude school inspectorate no.: 94439134. De (ZENITH) PA/AF
Ministry of Youth and Sport no.: 11064084
Official certificate no.: HA 011970002
