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Village templier de La Couvertoirade
La Couvertoirade
This fortified village on the Larzac plateau grew up around a 12th–13th-century Templar commandery, inherited after the order's suppression in 1312 by the Knights Hospitaller of Saint John of Jerusalem, who had the ramparts still standing today built between 1439 and 1450. The Church of Saint-Christol, the castle and the commandery buildings are listed historic monuments; the village is the starting point of the GR 71C, the trail of the "Templar and Hospitaller sites of the Larzac".
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Getting there : Village open to visitors, paid entry for the ramparts and church in season; listed among the "Most Beautiful Villages of France"
Opening times and access details are given as a guide only: check before you set out.
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Nearby
- Commanderie de Sainte-Eulalie-de-CernonTemplar site · Sainte-Eulalie-de-Cernon · 16 km
- Cathédrale Saint-Fulcran de LodèveCathedral · Lodève · 20 km
- Platane de Saint-Guilhem-le-DésertVenerable tree · Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert · 27 km
- Abbaye de Gellone et Pont du DiableMonastery / hospice · Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert · 27 km
- Abbaye de SylvanèsCistercian abbey · Sylvanès · 30 km
- Ancienne abbaye d'Aniane, la maison de saint Benoît d'AnianeMonastery / hospice · Aniane · 34 km
This place in the great stories
- The Hospitallers of Saint John: healing, fighting, inheriting the TempleHospital of the Amalfi merchants in Jerusalem c. 1070-1080; bull Pie postulatio…
- The Templars: from nine knights to the pyre on the Île aux JuifsJerusalem vow c. 1119-1120, Council of Troyes in 1129, arrests of 13 October 1307…
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