Hello Everyone, A couple of years ago I moved from beautiful British Colombia (Canada) to France and more precisely in Toulouse. The first year we were here we traveled to Barcelona (at 4 hours by freeway from us), one of the most beautiful cities in the world! But what triggered the most extraordinary feeling was not the remarkable Catalan city but our trip back to Toulouse which we decided to make via the back roads of the Cathar Country. Watching the old Cathar castles perched on the wooded hills - to paraphrase Laurence of Arabia - so beautiful they could hardly be called ruins, was a decisive point in my starting of the Catharism and the Albigensian Crusade studying. I would like to share all the information I have gathered since that time with anybody interested in the history of this phenomenon that shuck the Occitan Country in the late Middle Ages. My story can be read at: http://southweststory.com/catharism-short-history
