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Witches in Pyrenees Local culture of Pyrenees tells us many legends about witches and how common they were there and in other Regions. A witch was a woman who signed a...
Cathars, Pyrenees’s Good-Men. Catharism was a gnostic Christian movement, spread from the 10th to the 13th centuries, throughout Asia Minor, the Balkans, northern Italy, Occitania, Rhineland, Champagne and the Pyrenees. The...
Cathar legends in the Pyrenees Through these Cathars legends in the Pyrenees, Catharism survived in the valleys of the Pyrenees and Occitania. These fantastic stories show the substrate of Pyrenean psychism....
The Bons Homes Way’s hike. Discover the legacy of the Cathars across the Catalan and French Pyrenees The Way of Bons Homes (Good-Men) is a trans-Pyrenean hike that recalls the migration...
The trementinaires of the Pyrenees The trementinaires of the Pyrenees (turpentinaires) were women originally from this mountainous areas who were engaged in the collection of medicinal herbs and oil resin (from...
The legend of Count Arnau in the Pyrenees The legend of Count Arnau is the quintessential myth of medieval Catalonia. It is based on a popular song that has survived the...
Pyrenees 1900 – 1941 Eroic Pyrenees. Pyrenees 1902 was a turning point in the sport of mountaineering, with the first female-ascent of Aneto by Montserrat Mestre. The Cadier Brothers climbed Aneto-Back...
The Pyrenees from 1,880 to 1,900. The modern Pyrenees Modern mountaineering began in the Pyrenees in the last quarter of the 19th century. In 1,878 Maurice Goudon, St Saud and Courrège...
The Pyrenees from 1,850 to 1,880 scientists give way to romantics. After scientists have been studying the Pyrenees, others introduced a new way to approach these mountains. In 1,852 Lézat made...
The Pyrenees from 1280 to 1850 The Pyrenees have their maximum height at the summit of the Aneto: 3,404 meters above sea level. This height is modest compared to other mountains...
