Les Quatre Châteaux de Lastours
Four ruined medieval castles strung along a rocky spur above two deep river gorges.
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This audio guide to the four castles of Lastours, in the hills north of Carcassonne, takes you back to the spring of twelve ten and the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars. It follows Pierre-Roger de Cabaret, the lord who came home from the fall of Carcassonne and shut his gates, and Simon de Montfort, the crusade leader determined to open them. Listen from the path along the ridge, where the river still sounds from the gorge below.
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