Walking in the Cathar Region offers 22 walks based on the once strategically important castles that dominate the foothills of the Pyrenees. The collection of walks explore the castles and other locations which featured in Cathar history (mostly the 13th century) ensuring that this is an interesting and valuable guide to this area. The three long-distance walks, Le Sentier Cathare, Le Chemin des Bonshommes and the Grande Randonnées 7 & 71, are also included.Each walk has as its focal point a castle or other location associated with the Cathars. 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 Montségur in 1244, which ended with the burning alive of over 200 believers who refused to renounce their Cathar faith.
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Alan Mattingly was director of the Ramblers' Association from 1974 to 1998. He was once chairman of the Council for National Parks. He is now based in a small town in the eastern Pyrenees which lies just below the 9,000ft Pic du Canigou. When not exploring the Pyrenees on foot, Alan writes and also teaches English.
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This review is from: Walking in the Cathar Region: Cathar Castles of South-West France (Cicerone Guides) (Paperback)
This is a handy little guide book, with sufficient information on the sites and their history to generate interest. The maps could have been better, but will probably suffice.
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Sentier Cathare, Pech de Bugarach, Pic de St-Barthélemy, Montagne Noire, Canal du Midi, Simon de Montfort, Mont Major, Col du Linas, Lac de Moulzoune, French Crown, Ecluses de Fonseranes, Moulin de Ribaute, Communauté de Communes Pays, Treaty of Paris, Grau de Maury, Pays Cathare, Pla de St-Paul, Count of Foix, Pique Grosse, Serre de Blanes, Cascades des Mathieux, Guilhem de Peyrepertuse, Count of Toulouse, Grotte de Limousis, King of France Browse Sample Pages:
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