Museums and visits

    • ​The Espéraza Dinosaur Museum

      The Museum also allows you to discover the techniques of clearing and preparing fossils, thanks to a bay window open on the laboratory where the fossils are prepared after their harvest in the field. For children from 6 to 12 years old, a pedagogical and entertaining workshop is proposed: under the guidance of a facilitator, the children discover the secrets of the paleontological excavation and the reconstruction of a dinosaur skeleton.

    • ​The museum of the headgear

      Espéraza a été capitale de la chapellerie Française jusque dans la première moitié du 20e siècle. Ce musée reconstitue sous forme d'une petite usine toutes les étapes de la fabrication du chapeau de feutre à partir de la laine jusqu'au produit fini.

    • ​Museum of the Chapellerie

      Espéraza was capital of the French millinery until the first half of the 20th century. This museum reconstructs in the form of a small factory all stages of the manufacture of the felt hat from the wool to the finished product.

    • Béranger Sauniere

      François, Bérenger Saunière, often simply named under the name of the abbot Saunière in many historical and fictional works or in press reports, is a French Catholic priest, born April 11, 1852 in Montazels, a village located in the department of Aude, and died January 22, 1917 in Rennes-le-Château
      This man of church is mainly known for having spent large sums of money during his ministry in Rennes-le-Château, but the exact amount, nature and origin remain unknown. This personal enrichment remains closely associated, in the collective imagination, with the discovery of a hypothetical treasure by this man on the site of the village.

    • Rennes le Château

      In addition, Father Saunière, through his realizations and developments, including the parish church of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene and in its immediate vicinity, has profoundly altered the architectural appearance and life of the inhabitants of this city. small village, which remained until his appointment and his installation in the parish, totally unknown outside his region or even out of his canton.
      The Asmodée Devil (photo above) supporting a holy water font is one of the themes of the statuary of the Sainete Marie Madeleine church of Rennes le Château ...

    • ​The Magdala tower Rennes le Château

      It was built in the area of Abbot Saunière shortly after the renovation of the church (that is to say from the year 1900). This very small tower is built on the model of the medieval towers, and overlooks the region, allowing to see from above twenty villages.