This town was made famous by the siege, which ended in 1244 with 255 inhabitants throwing themselves alive into the pyre that their attackers had lit. When you stand, today, on its spectacular ramparts, many emotions flood over you.

The view is fantastic, vertiginous. It is a melancholy thought that 500 people spent 10 months cooped up here during the siege, which ended so savagely. The fort was occupied by the Nazis during World War Two. The summer solstice is popular here too, with a ray of sunlight falling precisely in an arrow slit ?