Château de Villerouge-Termenès
Corner-towered archbishops' fortress where the last Cathar Perfect was burned alive in 1321.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Château de Villerouge-Termenès, near Carcassonne, follows Guillaume Bélibaste, a Cathar holy man living as a refugee in the Kingdom of Valencia in the years after the Albigensian Crusade. It touches on why the Cathars needed their Perfects at all, and on a tangled household of baskets, a lover and a sham marriage. Best heard standing in the castle courtyard beneath the corner towers.
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