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L'Espinet Vacances
11500 QUILLAN
Tél : 33 (0)4 68 20 89 59 - 33 (0)4 68 20 88 88
Fax : 33 (0)4 68 20 21 02

Relaxation is made easy at l'Espinet! and you don't have to be a resident at l'Espinet vacances! Just head for our Wellness Centre and relax in the sauna, Jacuzzi, steam room or indoor pool. Why not enjoy a beauty treatment by our expert beautician? Balneotherapy is among recent additions to the extensive menu of treatments on offer. There is also a well equipped gym for those who like to get more physical.

DEODAT ROCHÉ?S HOUSE

Rue Déodat Roché
11190 ARQUES
Tél : 33 (0)4 68 69 84 77 - 33 (0)4 68 69 82 87
Fax : 33 (0)4 68 69 82 03

MAISON DEODAT ROCHE Arques is the village which saw the birth of Déodat Roché (1877-1978), the historian of Catharism. His house is the location for a permanent exhibition devoted to Catharism and its interpretations. The entrance ticket also entitles you to visit Arques Castle.

ESTATE OF THE ABBÉ SAUNIERE

Rue de l'église
11190 RENNES-LE-CHATEAU
Tél : 33 (0)4 68 31 38 85
Fax : 33 (0)4 68 74 72 68

DOMAINE DE L'ABBE SAUNIERE Experience an amazing place to visit ? Rennes-le-Château offers a variety of sites to visit, where traces of François Bérenger Saunière, also known as the Abbé Saunière, can still be found: the Church of Saint Mary Magdalen (10th century), its gardens, the presbytery of the Abbé Saunière (where he lived from 1885 to 1917) which has been converted into a cultural and historical area, and the Abbé Saunière's Estate, the Magdala tower, the Béthanie Villa and the orangery.
DOMAINE DE L'ABBE SAUNIERE Experience an amazing place to visit ? Rennes-le-Château offers a variety of sites to visit, where traces of François Bérenger Saunière, also known as the Abbé Saunière, can still be found: the Church of Saint Mary Magdalen (10th century), its gardens, the presbytery of the Abbé Saunière (where he lived from 1885 to 1917) which has been converted into a cultural and historical area, and the Abbé Saunière's Estate, the Magdala tower, the Béthanie Villa and the orangery.

LE TINEL MUSEUM

Place du village
11190 SERRES
Tél : 33 (0)4 68 69 85 45 - 33 (0)4 68 69 84 80 - 33 (0)4 68 69 85 26

MUSEE LE TINEL Le Tinel Museum displays wine-growing implements from the beginning of the 20th century and the basement has a vaulted cellar from the 15th-16th centuries. Enquire about opening times when making a booking.

PETIET MUSEUM

Promenade du Tivoli
11304 LIMOUX
Tél : 33 (0)9 63 68 34 54
Fax : 33 (0)4 68 20 22 54

MUSEE PETIET With its boldly painted rooms, high glass ceilings and drawing room furniture, this museum founded in 1880 has retained its "Belle Epoque" charm. The exhibits displayed illustrate the academic style of the second half of the 19 C. at the beginning of the 20 C. Marie Petiet, Achille Laugé collection.

PIANO MUSEUM

Place du 22 septembre
11300 LIMOUX
Tél : 33 (0)9 63 68 34 54
Fax : 33 (0)4 68 20 22 54

MUSEE DU PIANO A unique museum in France, with its display of around hundred pianos covering two centuries of piano history and production.

ROBOT MUSEUM

Rue Anne-Marie Javouey
11300 LIMOUX
Tél : 33 (0)9 63 49 81 96

MUSEE DES AUTOMATES Visitors can discover more than 100 robots in this mechanical pantomime in a series of worlds where characters inspired by stories and myths stand side by side with the Venice Carnival and other fantasies?. Tours of the creative workshop.

SHELLFISH MUSEUM

11250 POMAS
Tél :

THE HATTERS? MUSEUM

Avenue de la gare
11260 ESPERAZA
Tél : 33 (0)4 68 74 00 75
Fax : 33 (0)9 54 99 26 72

MUSEE DE LA CHAPELLERIE Consists of machines from local factories and retraces the entire traditional hat manufacturing process. Hats for sale at reception.

THE "LA CAUNA" PREHISTORY MUSEUM

11340 BELVIS
Tél : 33 (0)4 68 20 35 66 - 33 (0)4 68 20 37 62 - 33 (0)4 68 20 75 85

MUSEE DE LA PREHISTOIRE "LA CAUNA" An exhibition of relics of the Palaeolithic period found in the Sault caves. Open throughout the year, normally on the days when the library is open:: Wednesday afternoons from 14:00 to 16:00. Tours by appointment.

THE CATHAR COUNTRY AND FENOUILLEDES TOURIST TRAIN

11140 AXAT
Tél : 33 (0)4 68 20 04 00 - 33 (0)4 68 59 99 02
Fax : 33 (0)9 58 44 97 73

TRAIN TOURISTIQUE DU PAYS CATHARE ET DU FENOUILLEDES Explore this hundred-year-old railway line at the pace of our trains. It links Axat (Aude) and Rivesaltes (Pyrénées-Orientales). Travel in normal or open carriages, depending on the season, to encounter a mosaic of different landscapes. There is a commentary on the route. Open: Easter to end of December. Timetables and prices can be checked in our annual leaflet, on our website or by telephone.

THE DINOSAUR MUSEUM

Avenue de la gare
11260 ESPERAZA
Tél : 33 (0)4 68 74 02 08
Fax : 33 (0)4 68 74 05 75

MUSEE DES DINOSAURES Dinosauria is the first dinosaur museum in Europe. It has 3,000 sq m of exhibition space where you'll find a magnificent collection of dinosaurs, fossils of reptiles, mammals, invertebrates and plants from this region and throughout the world. From the Cretaceous Period glasshouse, which shows what plants were like 70 million years ago, you can get a direct view of researchers working in the laboratory. During school holidays children aged 6-12 can be shown excavation techniques and learn how to be real palaeontologists. The museum is open to the public in July and August. The excavation site is the richest deposit of fossils in France, where ?Eva' was discovered.

THE QUERCORB MUSEUM

16 rue Barry du Lion
11230 PUIVERT
Tél : 33 (0)4 68 20 80 98
Fax : 33 (0)4 68 69 99 50

The Quercorb Museum, with its attractive displays, allows you to discover this fascinating little region. Visual and sound exhibits recreate everyday life in Quercorb at the beginning of the 20th century. The "instrumentarium" is resonant with music and displays nine musical instruments of the middle ages that have been reconstructed on the model of the sculptures of musicians in Puivert Castle. You can use headphones to listen to 9 Occitan troubadour "cansos" while you follow the words and medieval music reconstructed on goatskin parchment. In the museum orchard there are displays including a still and a collection of objects related to harvesting fruit and processing it into fruit brand.