The Cathar Country is an identified land for its medieval patrimony wealth.

The Cathar Country’s castles and abbeys are the witnesses and symbols of a culture. They are the last remains of the cathar history in Occitany.

For twenty years now, many site’s owners are all implicated in the will to valorize the patrimonial wealths of this Country. The Sites of the Cathar Country Association is the support for their collective aspirations.
Numerous actions were carried out, for five years, but with this new presence via Internet, the association has made a new important stage. Internet is an invoidable tool for touristic promotion, it opens the way towards new landscapes and give us the opportunity to share our cultural wealth with a public getting always more and more important...

Today, the association members are proud to present you through this web-site, the castles, abbeys and museums of the Cathar Country and hope, moreover the simple information, to give you the will to come, discover and appreciate them for yourselves. 

Max Brail