Le chemin pave
Description
This historic trail steep and wooded, was for centuries the only route directly connecting the town of Lavelanet at Montsegur Castle once used by the Cathars . Seen impregnable Castle.
Technical informations
8.8 km
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max. 1122 m
min. 522 m
426 m
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Styles : HikingMountainForest Public : Occasional hikers | ||||||||||
Altimetric profile
Starting point
Steps
Starting point the centre of Lavelanet
At the roundabout take the direction of L’E.H.P.A D Retirement home “le Touyre”. Parking and open space.
Step 2
Take the path on the left for 900 meters towards the camping site (marked in yellow)
Step 3
Continue along the camp site, then through the small Wood (yellow markiers) and continue to Benaix (500 meters). Turn right towards the hamlet of Malbastid (1 km).
Step 4
At the hamlet leave the road and take the pathway on the right, a wide pathway that becomes a track. Follow the yellow markers, the “Sentier Cathar” which leads to the road to Benaix D 509.
Step 5
Take the road to the right for 50 meters then turn left to the hamlet of Cathofe (150 meters).
Step 6
Leave the road and take the footpath (marked yellow) then take the rather steep climb to the ridges of Labeur (about 2.5 km).
Step 7
On the ridges turn left as far as the intersection of the GR 7B (markers white and red)
Step 8
Continue to the right and descend to the ruins of “Pechiquelle”. Climb again for 900 meters to the fountain “miejo sole”.
Step 9
From the here the route climbs as far as the “Trembling Pass”. Panel indicates, (altitude 1040 meters) Montsegur.
Points of interest
Textile Museum
It was in an old cloth factory that the museum was established. It traces the industrial epic through archival pieces and a rich collection of machines from all eras.
The ruins of Péchiquelle
The castle of Montségur
By visiting the Montségur castle, you will perceive all that emerges from the site when one tries to imagine what could be during the winter 1243-1244 the seat of this citadel of vertigo. How for the 400 people entrenched, the living conditions already austere in normal times, were made even harder by the isolation resulting from this long siege of 10 months or 230 Cathars not wanting to deny their faith chose to die at the stake in cons bottom of the castle on March 16, 1244. Thus sounded the announced end of Catharism.
Archaeological Museum of Montségur
But Montségur is also a historical and archaeological museum. You will discover through thousands of exhibits how lived the inhabitants of the castle and castrum in the Middle Ages: tools, hardware, ornaments, weapons, dice to play ...
Additional information
To see
The textile museum and the horn comb in Lavelanet
The castle of Montsegur
The fountain " miejo sole" Péchiquelle the ruins of the archaeological
Museum in the village of Montsegur
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