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Built in a strategic point, on a hill that overhangs
the Tuchan plain, it watches the access to the Corbières.
It was owned by the count of Fennouillèdes from 1021.
It is a castrum that the viscounts of Carcassonne bequeathed
to their vassals -the lords of Ternes- in the 13th century.
It is constituted of an important donjon dating back to the 12th century, and
is surrounded with a high and polygonal wall from the 13th century, flanked
by several semi-circular towers
directed toward the side of the attack. This place was with
Termes, Quéribus, Puilaurens and Peyrepertuse, one of the
"five
sons of Carcassonne"
The present ruins state its wide hexagonal wall flanked by 6
patrol towers, and by the well-preserved central chapel.
Inside the wall, the Sainte-Anne chapel has
a very well restored vault.
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