This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more

The Best Attractions In Aude

x
Aude is a department in south-central France named after the river Aude. The local council also calls the department Cathar Country after a group of religious dissidents active in the 12th century. Aude is a frequent feminine French given name in Francophone countries, deriving initially from Aude or Oda, a wife of Bertrand, Duke of Aquitaine, and mother of Eudo, brother of Saint Hubertus. Aude was the name of Roland's fiancée in the chansons de geste.
Continue reading...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Filter Attractions:

The Best Attractions In Aude

  • 1. Carcassonne Medieval City Carcassonne Center
    Carcassonne is a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in 2000 by Hans im Glück in German and by Rio Grande Games and Z-Man Games in English. It received the Spiel des Jahres and the Deutscher Spiele Preis awards in 2001. It is named after the medieval fortified town of Carcassonne in southern France, famed for its city walls. The game has spawned many expansions and spin-offs, and several PC, console and mobile versions. A new edition, with updated artwork on the tiles and the box, was released in 2014.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 2. Cité de Carcassonne Carcassonne Center
    Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was a French architect and author who restored many prominent medieval landmarks in France, including those which had been damaged or abandoned during the French Revolution. His major restoration projects included Notre Dame Cathedral, the Basilica of Saint Denis, Mont Saint-Michel, Sainte-Chapelle, and the medieval walls of the city of Carcassonne. His later writings on the relationship between form and function in architecture had a notable influence on a new generation of architects, including Antonio Gaudí, Victor Horta, and Louis Sullivan.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 4. Reserve Africaine de Sigean Sigean
    The Réserve Africaine is a 300-hectare zoo that opened in 1974 in Sigean, Aude, in the south of France. The zoo is home to some 3,800 animals representing about 160 species, and is a member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria and the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums .
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 7. Abbaye de Fontfroide Narbonne
    Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne near to the Spanish border. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. In 1144 it affiliated itself to the Cistercian reform movement. Shortly afterwards the Count of Barcelona gave it the land in Spain that was to form the great Catalan monastery of Poblet, of which Fontfroide counts as the mother house, and in 1157 the Viscountess Ermengard of Narbonne granted it a great quantity of land locally, thus securing its wealth and status. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1...
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 11. Museum of Fine Arts Carcassonne Center
    List of museums in France by location.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 14. Cathar Castles Carcassonne Center
    Carcassonne is a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in 2000 by Hans im Glück in German and by Rio Grande Games and Z-Man Games in English. It received the Spiel des Jahres and the Deutscher Spiele Preis awards in 2001. It is named after the medieval fortified town of Carcassonne in southern France, famed for its city walls. The game has spawned many expansions and spin-offs, and several PC, console and mobile versions. A new edition, with updated artwork on the tiles and the box, was released in 2014.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Aude Videos

Shares

x

Places in Aude

x

Regions in Aude

x

Near By Places

Menu