Château cathare

Like most towns and villages of Europe, Rennes-le-Château has a complex history that has unfolded in successive layers, having been a camp prehistoric, a Roman colony and a medieval fortress. First of all the Gauls founded the first village that is invaded by the Romans. Rennes-le-Chateau from the Latin Rhedae. At the time of Charlemagne, the city is (according to legend) as important as Narbonne and Carcassonne. It is even said that it is the seat of the Visigothic kingdom in the sixth and seventh century, but there is no evidence of this. It is also the capital of Razes the eighth century. On the eve of the French Revolution, the village, complicated by a series of endogamous marriages, was passed into the hands of the family of Hautpoul one of whose members took up the title of Marquis de Blanchefort broke it in distaff say on the side of the heiress Marie de Nègre d'Able, High Lady of Blanchefort. The Saunière arrived in the village of Rennes-le-Château in 1885. He began to renovate many buildings as the Church of St. Mary Magdalene. He also built the Villa Bethania, Tour Magdala, a gallery, a glass tower and gardens. A rumor of the discovery of a treasure Saunière ...