"Foix" Midi-Pyrénées Favorite Tip by Klod5

Favorite thing: Foix is a small city to the foot of the Pyrenees.
Surrounded with high mountains, it is, on the road that leads to Andorra, an obligatory stage.

To the middle age, the counts of Foix reigned on the whole region. Quarrelsome and impetuous, Gaston Phoebus the count of Foix reigned without sharing of the Mediterranean until the middle of the Pyrenees.

At the time of the crusade of the albigeois, the Cathars were numerous in the region, and Foix, as other cities of the south of France known the Inquisition and the repression.