Château de Montségur

Located in the Ariège Pyrenees, on a hill overlooking the limestone country of Olmes, the current fortress was built in the late thirteenth century - the beginning of the fourteenth by the family of Levis, his lords by right of conquest. The castle was actually located on the site leveled the old fortified village which was to seat 1244, the place of most of the Cathars Resusta and faydits. A crusading army led by the seneschal of the king besieged the castrum May 1243 to March 1244. On March 16, the 225 Good Men and Good Women of Montsegur communities were burned at the foot of the mountain.