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Château de Quéribus is a window into France’s royal and medieval past. Locate it on the map, book a room nearby in a click, or add it to your travel list to build your itinerary.
About Château de Quéribus
Perched on a dizzying rocky pinnacle in the Corbières of the Aude, the Château de Quéribus is the most spectacular of the "Cathar castles", a fortress clinging to the very summit of a needle of rock high above the vineyards and hills, near the border with Roussillon. Famous as one of the last refuges of the Cathars, it held out until 1255, long after the fall of Montségur, before submitting to the king of France. Its polygonal keep and walls seem to grow from the living rock, and from its heights the view sweeps over the Pyrenees, the plain of Roussillon and, on a clear day, the Mediterranean. Spectacular, historic and magnificently wild, the Château de Quéribus is an unforgettable Cathar castle, one of the most dramatic castle settings in France, a thrilling stop for lovers of history and breathtaking scenery in Cathar country.