With the turning of a village or the bottom of a valley surrounded by vines, the abbeys and the remarkable sites of the Roman art of the cathar country are as many places to discover during your stay:

The abbey of Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide was selected for its calms and and its serenity in 1093 by hermits to establish a religious community to with it. It is the assasinat one of its monks, Pierre de Castelnau - Innocent Papal legate III, who started the Crusade against the cathars.

In the heart of the thermal village of Alet them baths, it was the seat again évéché after the Crusade against the cathars.

The origins of the abbey date from VIème century. Its Romance church has one of the chiefs of work of the Maître of Cabestany. In 1531, monks of the inventory abbey the 1st first gross effervescent of the world.

Founded Benedictine abbey in VIIIème sicèle, its history is closely related to the martyrdom of Papoul Saint. In XIe century fall it from Béranger Saint becomes a place of pélerinage which contributes to its prosperity.