Meeting point of so many People moving up to their destiny, Carcassonne is much more than a fifty-two- towers flanked City standing on its rock and doubled with a Bastide languorously lying along the banks of the Aude river, much more than a slice of Middle-Age: She is 2600 years of History!
In the XIII Century, The Châteaux Cathares were the witness of the Albigensian Crusade which devastated the Oc region from the Rhone to the Garonne. Lots of them are standing around Carcassonne, the most famous ones are named: Peyrepertuse, Queribus, Termes, Aguilar, Durfort (Corbières); Saissac, Ventajou, Minerve (Montagne Noire); Usson, Puylaurens, Montségur (Pyrenees)...