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Extract from the Minerve Travel Guides:
The village of
MINERVE
lies a dozen kilometres north of the canal du Midi, and halfway between Carcassonne and Bziers in the middle of the Minervois wine country. Its location is extraordinary, isolated on an island of rock between the gorges of the Briant and Cesse rivers, the latter of which has cut its course through two enormous tunnels in the rock known as the
Ponts Naturels
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The village turned Cathar at the beginning of the thirteenth century, which made it a target for Simon de Montfort's crusade. On July 22, 1210, after a seven-week siege, he took the castle and promptly burnt 180
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