Cherie's Place

We are now in the small village that I mentioned in a previous post:

On one very narrow turn a man came out of his house. I think he was going to assist to make sure his house didn’t get hit, I noticed there were some bumps and scrapes on the house opposite!! The corner was [...]

Legend has it that Princess Carcas, wife of the Saracen, Balaak, seeing Chalamagne lift the siege of her town, ordered the bells to be rung.
From Wiki:

History says that Charlemagne’s army was at the gates of the city facing the Saracens. A princess was at the head of the Knights of the City after the [...]

The city of Carcassonne is dominated by the feudal castle of the Trencavel family.  It was built on the Roman wall in the early 12th century.  The watchtower was raised and the defences were strengthened with crenelations before the crusades against the Cathars took place.  In 1266, Carcassonne was annexed to the domain of the [...]

I invite you to join me at Vision & Verb where I talk about the Museum of Torture that I visited whilst I was in Carcassonne.  It displayed the instruments of torture that were used in the middle ages.  The museum focused in detail on the Albigensian crusades and the Inquisition and left visitors with [...]

The Basilique Saint-Nazaire-et-Saint-Celse de Carcassonne was formerly the cathedral of Carcassonne. In 1801 it was replaced by the present Carcassonne Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Michel de Carcassonne).

The present church is in origin a Romanesque of the 11th century, consecrated by Pope Urban II in 1096. It was built on the site of a Carolingian cathedral, of [...]

The current church replaces an older which was thought to be built towards the end of the 11th century on the site of the house where Saint Gimer was born:
The parish of Saint-Gimer was established in 1840 and when the succursal chapel was built it was felt that a larger building was needed.  There were [...]