by Admin | Nov 23, 2011 | Art & Cratfts, History, Holidays in France, Markets & Fairs, Villages, Where to Go
Arriving from the flat, fertile valley of the Tarn & Garonne, dotted with trees heavy with fruit under wispy white veils that protect from the, often violent hail storms, the countryside starts changing to gently undulating, chalky hills. We are now entering the...
by Admin | Nov 20, 2011 | Châteaux, Driving in France, History, Holidays in France, Mountains and Valleys, Villages, Where to Go
Now, I thought I knew a lot about the Midi-Pyrénées region, especially the multitude of beautiful villages and places to see, but this one just flew right under the radar and I ‘found’ it totally by accident. I had just left another beautiful village, St...
by Admin | Nov 19, 2011 | Where to Go
The village of St Félix Lauragais rises 340 meters above the Lauragais plain, 10 kilometers from Revel, 17 kilometers from Castelnaudary, 37 kilometers from Castres and 52 kilometers south west of Toulouse. Some history … It was surely a Roman settlement during...
by Admin | Nov 17, 2011 | History, Villages, Where to Go
The village, or maybe it’s really a small town, of Bram is at the crossing of two ancient roads – The Via Aquitaine, between Narbonne and Toulouse and the road which goes between the departement of the Ariège and the Montagne Noire, which made it...
by Admin | Nov 17, 2011 | Where to Go
1n 1965 the vice-president of the Office de Tourisme, Richard Danis decided to make a detail by detail exploration and inventory of the cavities of the rock where the Château de Foix, in The Ariège department stands. In the company of other cavers and a historian,...
