Les Fortifications de La Cavalerie

Living history, but!

Perhaps I should have visited La Cavalerie before La Couvertiorade but I didn’t so perhaps I’m making an unfair comparison. However this fortified Templar settlement is very interesting to walk round ...

Enter the roaring medievel times

Very nice and low scale place with a pleasant atmosphere. The history of templars and hispital knight stimulates the imagination. Suitable for a short visit of approx 1 hour.

Nice to wander the walls

We didn’t realise you could do this until we walked past the office du tourisme. But make sure you do it, it’s not very expensive, and worth the wonder round. The lady in the office du tourisme was ...

Incredibly beutiful

For everybody who loves historical monuments with some kind of mystic. This fortifications is surrounded by unusual atmosphere, very extraordinary and somehow well known

Really interesting

We only spent a morning around the historic centre due to a long drive ahead but the fortifications were well worth exploring and amongst the best preserved and complete settings we have seen - highly...