From its 360 meters of altitude, the characteristic silhouette of this small village can be seen from afar. Ancient gallo-roman oppidum, then medieval castrum, between its fortifications once lived more than 3,000 inhabitants. A poet such as Peire Vidal sang, in the twelfth century, the praises of his castle today disappeared: That m'resembled paradise, Qu'amors e jois is i enclau (which seems to me Paradise; because love and joy are locked there) Fanjeaux discovers himself on foot, slowly, like a good book. There is a first page. We are charmed by these old half-timbered facades and stones, then we are caught in the heart of its small streets and squares. We settle in the middle of carved scenes that punctuate the landscape… finally, in the middle of this set of stone and metal, one discovers enchanted panoramas or tumultuous hills compete with the lauragais furrow, where winds the (not so) far Canal du Midi. So few vestiges of medieval times can tell you the exciting and eventful his
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place du Treil ,11270 Fanjeaux, Aude, Occitanie, France