A city in the south of France is said to be the one of the most captivating in the country, but it remains a hidden gem for ...

The beautiful city in the south of France is considered to be the best in the country, yet it remains relatively unknown to tourists compared to the likes of Paris ...

Any tourist visiting this region would find it hard to miss the ever-present signs and historical markers recounting the tragic tale of the Cathars. The city of Albi is dominated by the massive ...

For visitors to the country of the Cathars, however, Carcassonne is known primarily as the best preserved fortified city to have survived from the Middle Ages to the present. It’s the very ...

Following the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathar heretics (13th century) it became a powerful episcopal city. Built in a unique southern French Gothic style from local brick in characteristic red ...

Catharism was not an isolated phenomenon ... an army of crusaders marched down from northern France into Languedoc and besieged the city of éeziers. When the city fathers refused to hand over ...

Catharism first emerged in the 11th century, in the Languedoc region of France. The movement initially took hold in the French city of Albi. The movement was at first taught by ascetic leaders.

whose leafy banks provide students with summer rec rooms (the city has the second largest student population in France, after Paris). The narrow streets of its old town hum with tales of Cathar ...

To the Editor: The cover article, “The Besieged and the Beautiful”; (May 9), on the crusade against the Cathars, does not present the full story. A much more serious issue than religious ...