History

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  The Cistercians

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  The Cistercian adventure began in the year 1098, when Robert of Molesme, Alberic and Stephen Harding, prompted by the desire to return to the Rule of Saint Benedict, founded their Novum Monasterium in a place called Cistels. With Bernard of (...)
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  The Roads to Santiago

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  The discovery of the tomb of James the Greater at the beginning of the 9th century, near Iria Flavia at the north-west of the Iberian peninsula, gave birth to one of the three great pilgrimages of Christianity. Although the figure of the (...)
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  The Templars

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  The Order of the Knights Templar was founded in Jerusalem in 1119, after the First Crusade and the creation of the Latin Kingdoms of the East, to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land. Simultaneously monks and warriors, their white mantles (...)
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  The Cathars

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  In the first centuries of our era, Christian dogma slowly developed. Those who moved away from it, heretics, were excluded from the Church and even fought by temporal power. During the 12th century, in all parts of Europe, a dualistic (...)
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  The Cathars

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  For having tried, like “good Christians”, to explain that Evil could not possibly have sprung from a divine source, the Cathars, during the 13th century, were to fall victim to a succession of violent acts, each perpetrated in the (...)
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  The Cathars

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  At the end of the 12th century what the religious powers of Rome called heresy, spread over the Occitan lands: Catharism. This religion was the result of great spiritual demand and was widely implanted in all levels of society: it was tolerated, (...)
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  Roman Provence

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  After the destruction of Carthage 146 years b.c., Rome, which had just received the gift of the Iberian Peninsula from its vanquished rival, wanted to be sure of an access which was both swift and sure. The Celto-Ligurian tribes occupying the (...)
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  the roads to Compostela

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  At the dawn of the 9th century, a star appeared in the skies above Galicia. It led to the discovery of the tomb of James the Great, the apostle of Christ. In the 12th century, the Field of the Star became Compostela, one of the three great (...)
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  The Cistercians

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  In 1098, Robert of Molesme founded, in a place called Cistels, his New Monastery. After difficult beginnings the Order of Cistercians, with the impetus of Stephen Harding, then of Bernard of Clairvaux, expanded rapidly across the whole of Europe (...)
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  The Canal du Midi

  The Canal du Midi is the realisation of an almost Utopian project, to link the Mediterranean to Toulouse and to the Atlantic by a navigable route. It is the work of a man, Pierre Paul Riquet, who applied all his strength and all his means to the (...)
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