Cathar country – Android-Logiciels.fr

This guide will accompany you throughout your visit in Aude and will immerse you in the heart of the Cathar Country. It will allow you to prepare your stay in peace by choosing beforehand the accommodation, outdoor activities, restaurants or even wineries to discover.

You will thus have all the keys in hand to visit the 20 sites of the Cathar Country combined in a single application:
– 10 castles,
– 7 abbeys,
– 2 medieval cities
– 1 museum

Each of the 20 sites has its own enhanced walk that will take you around the monument and accompany you in your discovery. The voice that will guide you in the visit is completed by photos, images, diagrams which will reveal a detail, a missing building, or will plunge you back into moments of history … to transport you in the past and bring this to life. that you see.

Who are the Cathars?
Appearing around the year 1000, Catharism is a dissident Christian religion, originating in the East, particularly influential around Toulouse, Carcassonne, Béziers and Albi. The region then became a refuge for the Cathars when the Church chased them during the Albigensian crusade, to the heights of Montségur. This is the story told by the castles of the Pays Cathare.

The augmented walks contain:
– Magic monocles. 360 ° geo-located image sphere superimposed on reality, the magic eyeglass increases the user’s field of vision and delight the senses: step by step, the voice tells, sounds transport and images overlap, to build a story that reveals a detail, the story of a landscape, a missing building, etc.
– History sketches. Small dialogue scenes that plunge back into a particular moment in history, at the heart of major historical events or anecdotes that allow a better understanding of a fact, a historical figure, or a ceremony at the site visited.
– Sketches or diagrams. They make it possible to reveal a disappeared element, to show the architectural evolution of a building, to draw the user’s gaze to a detail, to show him the evolution of a border, etc.

But also educational frescoes. To better understand the major historical, cultural, or natural issues of the Aude of yesterday and today, you can unfold 10 interactive frescoes with your fingertips. You choose :
– Loves and speeches of troubadours.
– Live the Cathar faith.
– The story of a struggle against heresy.
– The citadels of vertigo.
– The divine melody.
– Symbolism in the Middle Ages.
– Religious orders and disorders.
– Landscape compass.
– Aude in its wine.
– The life of pebbles.

You will also have access to 210 summary sheets which allow you to better understand certain subjects mentioned in the walks. Simple, educational, accompanied by illustrations, they are there to facilitate the understanding of the monument, its history and the landscapes that surround it.

The 20 monuments of the Cathar Country:
– Castles: Aguilar, Arques, Montségur, Peyrepertuse, Puilaurens, Quéribus, Saissac, Termes, Villerouge-Termenès, Lastours.
– Abbeys: Alet-les-Bains, Caunes-Minervois, Fontfroide, Lagrasse, Saint-Hilaire, Saint-Papoul, Villelongue.
– Medieval cities: Castles and ramparts of the City of Carcassonne, Medieval City of Fanjeaux
– Museum of Quercorb.