Short details for Cathares & Troubadours Grail Lore
The "Cathares & Troubadours Grail Lore Pilgrimage" is a special 14 days tailor-made escorted journey which focuses on the Cathares and Templars dramatic history and legends. The itinerary starts at the enchanting confines of the Alet Abbaye (Gites de France) in the Aude/Ariege region, from where we will persue our Grail Quest to the fortresses of Montségur, Quéribus and Peyrepertuse. We will study the historical and mythological sites of the Wisigoths lost kingdom in the area of Rennes le Chateau, Rennes les Bains, Carcassonne, Limoux and pursue our Quest in other historical sites all surrounded by the magnificent scenery of the Land of Cathars.
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The option to A 14 days Discovery Tour in the Cathars Country remains always flexible and responding to the participant's main interests and therefore can always be re-united or added to another extra option: The "Cathares & Troubadours Grail Lore".
The "Cathares & Troubadours Grail Lore Pilgrimage "
The "Cathares & Troubadours Grail Lore Pilgrimage" is a special 14 days tailor-made escorted journey which focuses on the Cathares and Templars dramatic history and legends. The itinerary starts at the enchanting confines of the Alet Abbaye (Gites de France) in the Aude/Ariege region, from where we will persue our Grail Quest to the fortresses of Montségur, Quéribus and Peyrepertuse. We will study the historical and mythological sites of the Wisigoths lost kingdom in the area of Rennes le Chateau, Rennes les Bains, Carcassonne, Limoux and pursue our Quest in other historical sites all surrounded by the magnificent scenery of the Land of Cathars.
Should you be alone, or with your family, or with a small group of friends or spiritual practitioners, do not hesitate to contact us, we will develop a custom-made escorted tour based upon your personal approach, agenda and request.
All our options allow you to create your own itinerary, with the help of our local specialists, guides, lecturers and academics. Please take a few minutes to study the various itineraries of our Scheduled Escorted Tours and get an idea of the main interests have on offer. We will then assist you in putting together an itinerary that will serve your exact requirements and approach.
Philosophy of the Quest
This journey focuses upon the Insights and Resonance which one gathers while visiting the Cathares sites, including its medieval castles, monasteries and cities, such as Foix, Carcassonne, Arques, Peyrepertuse, Termes, Latour, Minerve and Quéribus. It also includes references to altars and renown archaeological traces, such as Cairns, Dolmens, Caves and Ruins, all situated in the region Aude/Ariège region in the Pyrennees.
We will evoke the dramatic Crusade of Simon de Montfort's Inquisition against the Cathares. From this, we will also discuss how in more recent times the Montségur Pog had become the symbol of a Solar Cult and the Montsalvat of the Holy Grail Quest for many Occult groups, including the IIIrd Reich SS Ahnenerbe. Finally we will also visit some of the recent Tibetan Dharma Centers, which were created in the same area in the early 1980s.
We will be slowly climbing the long path steps to Montségur Pog (refuge) Fortress, and there we will pay Hommage to the Parfaits and other Cathars who gave they lives on the stake to preserve their tradition. Most of the striking altars, ruins, cities, basilicas, fortresses and powerplaces we will visit, have kept their outstanding beauty and spiritual attraction.
Therein lies a strong blend of emotional dramatic history, cosmo-telluric energies and resurgence of mythological entities, reasons for their exceptional harmony and powers. As such, this pilgrimage wants each and all participants to meditate on their own personal beliefs, feelings, meditation and catharsis, all within the striking natural beauty of such target-sites, in all freedom and without inducement...
After your arrival in Nice, we will transfer to the Verdon area and check-in the Comps Grand Hotel Bain. After a few days the the Verdon area, one early morning, we will drive to the Cathares region in the Aude Pyrennees. This will allow us to visit a serie of convenient historical spots on the way, such as Aix en Provence, Arles and others. After a day journey, we will reach Carcassone and then arrive in the evening at the old Alet Benedictine Abbaye (Nostradamus house), where our Guesthouse is located.
Thus, from such enchanting confines, we will begin our intimate relations with the Cathars Grail Quest, in the very midst of the mysteries of Holy Blood / Holy Grail and a few miles only from the famous Rennes-le-Chateau (Razes Wisigoths) area.
The Hostellerie L' Evéche, where we will stay, is the old Abbaye of Alet, a Benedictin monastery being now a restored Guesthouse*** (Gites de France) nested along the river Aude in the village where Nostradamus once lived.
Reflecting upon the Aude and its quiet surroundings, we will prepare a first historical acquaintance with the Cathars spiritual heritage and the remaining traces of the Inquisition. We will then drive and visit Rennes le Chateau and Rennes les Bains, the renowned Wisigoth Treasure of the Abbe Boudet and the Ark of Alliance stolen by Alaric during his sacking of Rome.
Following then the path of the Troubadours, we will evoke the symbolic joust and tournaments which were celebrated in the romantic Puivert castle. We will also examine the Knights Templars traces at Bézu, Rennes-le-Chateau, Blanchefort and surrounding areas. Not far away from Couiza lies a little village : Rennes-le-Chateau, which has became renown in recent years for its strange history and magical mysteries.
Occupied since the Neolithic ages , being at the same time an ancient Gallic powerplace, the capital of the Wisigoths tribe and Rhedae, the city of Merovingian Kings, many suggest that it may still hide today the Arch of Alliance, somewhere in the surrounding Razès. The Magdala tower, build by Béranger Saunière is said by several Tibetan Lamas (Nyingma and Karguydpa, 1985) to be one of the local entry to the Celtic Annwn (the land of ancestors), or in other names the Tibetan Shambala...
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