• Montségur: last refuge of the Cathars.
• Foix: dominated by its central hill-top castle, built by the most illustrious of the Counts of Foix, Gaston Phoebus.
• St Lizier: Bishop’s palace, cathedral and cloister overlooking.
St Girons. Summer piano festival.
• Prehistoric Ariège: Mas d’Azil, a spectacular and vast natural tunnel that has provided shelter down the ages since prehistoric times. The Pyrenees Prehistoric Art Park, a giant facsimile of prehistoric painted caves (there are some 13 in Ariège). Niaux prehistoric cave network, one of Europe’s best for the quality of its wall paintings. Also, the impressive prehistoric sites of La Grotte de la Vache, La Grotte Bédeilhac and La Grotte de Lombrives.

Comité départementale de tourisme Ariège Pyrénées
31bis, Avenue du Général de Gaulle
BP 143
09004 Foix cedex
Tel :05 61 02 30 70
Fax 05 61 65 17 34
www.ariegepyrenees.com
tourisme.ariege.pyrenees@wanadoo.fr

Photo credit : CRT Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées. D. Viet et CDT Ariège-Pyrénées. B. Benoit