Cicerone wandelgids Walks in the Cathar Region / Katharen - Pyreneeen - Frankrijk (9781852844233)

• ISBN / Code:
  9781852844233
• Aantal blz.:
  224
• Uitgever:
  Cicerone Press
• Editie:
  2005
• Soort:
  wandelgids
• Taal:
  Engels
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Cicerone wandelgids Walks in the Cathar Region / Katharen - Pyreneeen - Frankrijk

Uitstekende wandelgids van dit geweldige gebied. goed beschreven met veel praktische informatie om de route te kunnen lopen, inclusief redelijke kaarten.

The Cathar castles are the visible remains of the long religious rebellions from 1000-1250. Guide has over 30 routes from 16 centres, including Béziers, Minerve, Lastours, Foix, Roquefixade, Lordat, Montailloe, Puivert, Montségur, Usson, Puilaurens, Quéribus, Peyrepertuse, Villerouge-Ternenes, Rennes and the Pech de Bugarach.

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 Bèziers 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.

Introduction
Who were the Cathars?
Languedoc, the ‘Cathar castles’ and the Pays Cathare
Getting there
Getting around
Accommodation
Stocking up
Maps
Weather, equipment, risks
Waymarked walking routes
The walks described in this book
How to use this guide

The Walks
1 Béziers
2 Minerve
3 Lastours
4 Foix
5 Roquefixade
6 Lordat
7 Montaillou
8 Puivert
9 Montségur
10 Usson
11 Puilaurens
12 Quéribus
13 Peyrepertuse
14 Villerouge-Termenès
15 Rennes-le-Château
16 The Pech de Bugarach: final walk, final thoughts
Appendices
1 Useful addresses
2 General publications