A massive Spanish fortress built in the 1490s, when Roussillon was part of Spain, to guard the road from France. Half sunk into the ground to resist artillery, with walls up to ten metres thick, it marks a turning point between medieval castles and modern forts.
It's right beside the motorway north of Perpignan, an easy stop on the way to Spain.
The sacred mountain of the Catalans, rising to 2,784 metres above the plain of Roussillon, with a cross on the summit decorated with Catalan flags.
An ancient hilltop town between Béziers and Narbonne, lived in from the 6th century BC until Roman times, with a museum of Greek vases and finds.
A medieval village perched on a rocky spur between the gorges of the Cesse and Brian rivers, besieged by Simon de Montfort in 1210 during the crusade…
A staircase of eight locks on the Canal du Midi at Béziers, lifting boats 21 metres up the hillside, one of the great feats of Pierre-Paul Riquet's 1…
A fortified medieval city on a hill in Languedoc, with a double ring of walls and 52 towers, restored in the 19th century by the architect Viollet-le…
The ruined castle on a steep rocky peak in the foothills of the Pyrenees where the Cathars made their last stand.
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