Legendary castleAriège
Château de Foix
Foix
Dimensions
3 towers, including a round 15th-century keep
Period
10th – 15th century
What stands there
seat of the Counts of Foix, allies of Catharism
Residence of the Counts of Foix, who openly protected Cathar Perfects and resisted royal power and the Church. Besieged without success by Simon de Montfort in 1211 and 1212, it was never taken — a symbol of Occitan resistance to the crusade.
Getting there : Admission charge, departmental museum
Opening times and access details are given as a guide only: check before you set out.
Ambient sound
Nearby
- Château de RoquefixadeLegendary castle · Roquefixade · 12 km
- Bastide de Roquefixade (La Bastide-de-Montfort)Bastide (planned town) · Roquefixade · 13 km
- Chapelle Notre-Dame de SabartChapel · Tarascon-sur-Ariège · 14 km
- La Bastide-de-SérouBastide (planned town) · La Bastide-de-Sérou · 15 km
- Cathédrale Saint-Antonin de PamiersCathedral · Pamiers · 17 km
- Bastide de Plaisance (Gabre)Bastide (planned town) · Gabre · 20 km
This place in the great stories
- Cathar Country: the good men, the crusade and the last pyreColloquy of Lombers (1165) and the Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229), then the Inquisition…
In the same department
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