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Free Download Trekking the Cathar Way: The Sentier Cathare in Southern France (Cicerone Guides) by Nell Sleet, Luke Smith
English | June 30, 2022 | ISBN: 1786310473 | 208 pages | PDF | 22 Mb
A guidebook to walking the 260km (162 mile) GR367 Cathar Way (Sentier Cathare) between Port-la-Nouvelle and Foix. This long-distance trek through the Languedoc region of southern France is suitable for fairly experienced hikers and can be walked in 2 weeks.Presented in 13 stages of 12-27km (7-17 miles) with a northern variant includedRoute passes Durban-Corbières, Tuchan, Cucugnan, Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet, Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes, Puilaurens, Axat, Bugarach (north variant), Quillan (north variant), Puivert, Espezel, Montségur, MontferrierRoute is described east-westSuitable to be walked April through to October, although high temperatures are experienced in the summerGPX files available to download1:100,000 maps are included for each stageDetailed information about accommodation, facilities and public transport along the route

Free Download Marcus Cowper, "Cathar Castles: Fortresses of the Albigensian Crusade 1209-1300"
English | ISBN: 1846030668 | 2006 | 64 pages | AZW3 | 6 MB
In the early 12th century AD a large area of present-day France was not under the direct control of the French king. In fact, the French king’s direct authority stretched little further than Paris and the area immediately around it, the Ile de France. Many of the other regions were semi-independent duchies and counties, controlled by, amongst others, the King of England and the Holy Roman Emperor. One such area free from direct French control was the Languedoc, the area stretching from the Massif Central south to the Pyrenees, and as far as the river Rhone to the east. This area was under the loose overlordship of the counts of Toulouse, and by the beginning of the 12th century the whole region had become the centre of an early form of Protestantism called Catharism that flourished to an extraordinary degree and threatened the rule of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Innocent III, alarmed at this heresy and the unwillingness of the southern nobility to do much to uproot it, launched a crusade in 1209 against European Christians. The crusading army, represented the established Church consisting predominatly of northern French knights. They saw this as an opportunity both to ‘take the cross’ and to obtain new lands and wealth for themselves more conveniently than crusading to the Holy land. This, the Albigensian Crusade, became a brutal struggle between the north and the south of France as much as between orthodox Roman Catholic and heretic Cathar.

Free Download Trekking the Cathar Way: The GR367 Sentier Cathare in Southern France by Nell Sleet, Luke Smith
English | June 30, 2022 | ISBN: 1786310473 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 27 MB
A guidebook to walking the 260km (162 mile) GR367 Cathar Way (Sentier Cathare) between Port-la-Nouvelle and Foix. This long-distance trek through the Languedoc region of southern France is suitable for fairly experienced hikers and can be walked in 2 weeks.

Free Download The Song of the Cathar Wars: A History of the Albigensian Crusade
by Janet Shirley
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138451657 | 225 Pages | True PDF | 6.5 MB