Cicerone Press: Walks in the Cathar Region (ePub)
Cathar Castles of south-west France
(Sprache: Englisch)
The guide offers 30 day walks based on the once strategically important castles that dominate the foothills of the Pyrenees. Routes from 16 centres, including Beziers, Minerve, Lastours, Foix, Roquefixade, Lordat, Montailloe, Puivert, Montsegur, Usson,...
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The guide offers 30 day walks based on the once strategically important castles that dominate the foothills of the Pyrenees. Routes from 16 centres, including Beziers, Minerve, Lastours, Foix, Roquefixade, Lordat, Montailloe, Puivert, Montsegur, Usson, Puilaurens, and Rennes. 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 Beziers in 1209 to the siege at Montsegur in 1244, which ended with the burning alive of over 200 believers who refused to renounce their Cathar faith. Reprinted with updates in 2014.
Autoren-Porträt von Alan Mattingly
Alan Mattingly was Director of the Ramblers' Association in Britain from 1974 to 1998. A member of the Outdoor Writers' Guild, he received that organisation's Golden Eagle Award in 1998. His previous publications include Tackle Rambling (1981), Walking in the National Parks (1982) and Walking in the Cathar Region (Cicerone, 2005).
He is now based in Vernet-les-Bains, in the eastern Pyrenees. There, he teaches English, writes - and is at last able to spend much more time in the great outdoors than was possible when he led a walkers' organisation based in central London!
He has spent recent years exploring in detail country where the famous Cathar castles of southern France are located. These medieval fortresses are mostly perched on vertiginous limestone pinnacles and command fantastic views of the surrounding hills, mountains, forests and vineyards. In the thirteenth century they gave shelter to the Cathars, a heretical sect of Christians who defied, but who were ultimately crushed by, Church and Crown. "Their history," he says, "is full of drama and mystery. It is as fascinating as the landscape in which it all took place."
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alan Mattingly
- 2013, 1. Auflage, 208 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Cicerone Press
- ISBN-10: 1849658536
- ISBN-13: 9781849658539
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.06.2013
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