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New World Heritage site: The Episcopal City of Albi, France


If you are interested in World Heritage Sites, medieval architecture, or the history of heresies and their repression, then check this out: a new World Heritage Site in south-west France which was the site of massive church action in the 13th century against the Albigensians or Cathars.

 

New World Heritage Site: The Episcopal City of Albi

 

From the World Heritage Sites description of the city:

Today the Old Bridge (Pont-Vieux), the Saint-Salvi quarter and its church are testimony to its initial development (10th -11th centuries). Following the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathar heretics (13th century) it became a powerful episcopal city. Continue reading