Northwestern from La Posada, Rennes-le-Château
overhangs the Aude and the Sals valleys.
Able to watch the landscape at the bottom of the
Pyrénnées and the mountain in the same time, this
promontory was occupied very early by the men.

The village perched above the plain was coveted
and feared during years. Visigoths and Templars
would have surrounded the place. Since that, the
maddest legends were born in the course of the time.

The famous priest, the abbot Saunière, would have
found, at the end of the 19th century, a treasure and
something some documents «so important that they
might change the face of the world». He had shared
his secret with his maidservant, Marie, but in spite of
all the attempts to make her speaking, the domestic
always refused to betray her master, even on her deathbed.