Carcassonne : entre conte de fées et Histoire – 1000 Pays en un – Documentaire Voyage – MG

Carcassonne est un lieu extraordinaire, une parfaite cité médiévale avec ses fortifications massives dominant la campagne environnante. 🏰 ⚔️ 🛡️

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Vous la verrez de loin émerger comme un rêve, posée en couronne sur une colline au milieu des vignes. Carcassonne, avec ses 52 tours et sa double enceinte longue de 3 km, est l’archétype de la cité médiévale telle qu’on l’imagine à travers le monde.
Classée UNESCO en 1997, Carcassonne est l’une des principales destinations touristiques de France, attirant en moyenne trois millions de visiteurs par an !
Entrez par la porte Narbonnaise. Découvrez à pied la cité, animée de restaurants et de boutiques, en vous attardant dans le château comtal bâti au XIIè s. par les Trencavel, et dans la basilique Saint-Nazaire.

Réalisation: Krystell Bonnet, Amélia Pujol.
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[Music] discovering the Carcassonnis country begins with a journey through time the medieval city these 2500 years of history and places completely forgotten we will enter one of these famous sal basses which served as jaoule in the Middle Age the other essential of the Carcassonnais Country is the cassoulet you will discover it on the stove side with the tips that make all the difference that there it’s called the juices it’s the juices of the meat that’s what will suit us give the taste this is what will give the taste to your Casset to the north of Carcassonne is the Black Mountain, an enigmatic massif with multiple facets from which the most unexpected encounters can arise, the lama we find in reality that we South America in the courtyard of the descent on the altiplanau here it is much more comfortable for him to discover the splendors of the Montagne Noire will also go through the discovery of these bowels the chasm of Cabrespine we have a scale a little of the time for to create these famous kind of volume to see some finally sion the carcassonnis it is mentioned the tragic history of the qatars he designated themselves as the good Christians this is what caused their loss catar were pushed back more and more towards inaccessible refuges the last soubrau are around 1321 this discovery of the Carcassonne Country will take us through a dreadful land for so many unforgettable encounters and surprises which make up all its richness our journey begins with the medieval city of Carcassonne managed by the Center of National Monuments classified as UNESCO world heritage, it makes the city internationally renowned and makes several hundred thousand tourists dream every year. For Véronique Mant, it’s castle life every day and for good reason, she is one of the official conference guides of the place she has an appointment with a rare person one of the very last inhabitants of the city so we are now going to meet Philippe de he is an emblematic character of this city of Carcassonne since he is one of the rare inhabitants of this city and which is well established on the street since it runs a café restaurant just opposite the Château Contal hello Philippe I had the little café willingly it is not by chance that Véronique brings us to the café of Philippe who has lived in the heart of the city since his childhood is a bit like the living memory of the place and like Véronique’s estate it’s more like history, so we’ll do this visit, come on, the visit will be an opportunity to compare our knowledge with Philippe’s memories, so we’ll I’m going to leave now to discover the Contal castle, so that’s a castle, that’s it, it’s my castle, the Contal castle dates from the 12th century, it is the heart of the medieval city and will be equipped a century later with a fortified enclosure to protect against possible rebellion of the population so here we see it as it was during the royal era eh but this castle was obviously built from the 12th century since it was the residence of the lords of Carcassonne the viscount Trincavel then a unique heritage like this obviously it’s maintained eh that’s why in this off season we take the opportunity to do work so we’ll perhaps come home a little noisy eh now that you have put your your gardens our children will no longer be able to play ball in the in the moats of the castle many rugby careers began here in these in these moats it was it was a field available free available to all good world now it is still nicer for the welcome of our tourist to have a medieval garden than to reserve it for a few kids who kick a ball places with preserved history the city is full of it example in this room of the Contal castle more than 800 years old it’s a shame that elevators were invented much later so here we are in the dungeon and we are here in the Rotonda camera so the round room yet it is rectangular in fact this term of round room comes from this semi-circular vault so the paintings date from the 12th century they illustrate a fight between Fran rider and Saracen the Fran have a somewhat pointed helmet almond-shaped shields and the Saracens a round shield and on certain characters we see turbans the fortified city is one of the best preserved in Europe thanks to the work of restoration of rape and the duuc in the 19th 11 hectares are open to visitors but some places remain secret, this is the case of the forgotten room where Véronique brings Philippe an old dungeon closed to the public to preserve it from possible degradation here more than elsewhere the walls tell the story we are going to enter one of these famous low rooms which served as a de jaoule in the Middle Ages so obviously in prison the time is long we get bored so these are common law prisoners that we are going to lock up here they don’t have the writing yet eh so what are they going to do it burns it [Music] burns but there it looks like a laced character it’s of laced characters side one one an ordeal an ordeal with a moon and a sun and then more erotic yes which is downright almost pornographic yes we can say it we can imagine the living conditions 5 or so centuries ago what were the concerns at that time it was save his soul God freedom with animals and then the bodies of women who were to serve as a support for their imagination the imagination it is also a question around the legend which would have given its name to Carcassonne on this point between Véronique and Philippe the big and the little story will confront each other and there you recognize it Philippe ah yes eh the one who would have given its name to the city yes lady carcass we grant you it takes a little imagination to distinguish here the face of lady carcass on this old stone but know that a restored version is located at the entrance to the city as for the story of this princess listen to the version of Philippe Charlemagne would have made the siege finally it must be put conditional Charlemagne never besieged the city but he would therefore have besieged lady carcass who was a Saracen princess would have fed the last pig with the last bag of wheat that’s where a Saracen princess feeding a pig is more difficult to accept and would have thrown the pig away – above the rampart seeing this Charlemagne’s soldiers would have raised the CAN if he gave grain to the pig it is because they can hold out for a long time and moving away Charlemagne lady carcass would have rung the bells and charlemag would have said hold on carcass rings and that has long earned the City the pig festival yes eh this legend where we threw a cardboard pig filled with sweets and which was the joy of the joy of the games Véronique will find Philippe a little later in the city but for the Now she wants us to discover another aspect of Carcassonnet because this land of history is also a land of 20in direction 20 km south of the city to find out more about these vines where the emblematic blanquette de Limou was born explanation with Richard, a specialist in this sparkling wine, in fact everything begins with a very particular grape variety, our favorite grape variety is Mosac, it is he who gave its lexical identity, we are going to tell our server that in spring and summer you could see the foliage on the underside is very downy and therefore white and therefore in very windy countries here the white side is often visible this is why we speak of blanquette 10 million bottles are produced each year with a quality objective more than of quantity Richard then takes us to meet the brothers Robert winemaker hello Mr. director hello Sir Thank you for welcoming us objective to evoke precisely the manufacturing process so we are at the domain of fourne in the heart of the Limou appellation and I suggest you go down in the underground cellars of this area where it is one of the best blanquettes of liimé the most important stage of the manufacturing process is that of riddling to eliminate the residues resulting from fermentation you can see here through transparency a deposit which has formed it yes of yeast which must be extracted from the bottle and it is this riddling operation which daily means that this deposit will end up in the work so Bernard turns the bottles every day so it is an operation which is carried out daily with a quarter turn and over several weeks to achieve the expected result then Bernard is capable of turning over between 8 and 10,000 bottles per hour. We saw that a deposit was forming in the bottle and we will have to eliminate this deposit completely so we will witness this operation which is called disgorging which will be carried out with dexterity by Bernard and then we will be able to proceed with the tasting in the tasting then Bernard is ready so Bernard has carried out the disgorging magnificently so he has what we are going to take out uncapping and the pressure the foam to evacuate the ice cap containing the yeasts and therefore we will be able to taste the characteristics of the mosac sepage are aromas of green apples and white flowers to be enjoyed with friends around why not a cheese from the Pyrenees like here with a glass of brut or a glass of demi-seec for dessert and of course you don’t have to follow the pace of consumption of our winemaker, you drink often so nothing when he makes films he doesn’t like that his thing at the MO once a day it’s true à la vre à la vre the blanquette de limous it’s also a story that of the oldest sparkling wine in the world Véronique now takes us to the abaye of Saint-Hilaire where everything has [Music] started hello hello well thank you so it is you who will tell us everything about the abbey of Saint-Hilaire since you are guide exactly the money of the heritage here at the abaye of Saint-Hilaire so here 1000 years of History contemplates us from the reign of Charlemagne until the beginnings of the French Revolution so for 300 years our Abbey has benefited from very numerous donations and essentially from the vines the Abbey of Saint-Yaire is of course linked to the history of the blanquette quite besides today I’m taking you to see one of the many cellars of the abaye of Saintyire in fact what must have happened since there we only have hypotheses is that the wine has been forgotten in glass bottles and wine especially which still contained sugar we know that these sugars rotting by being eaten by the yeasts will produce gas in fact this is what caused this spontaneous effervescence Richard soon joins Fabien and Véronique for historical precision [Music] the imou and the blanquette de liimou stand out in the world of sparkling wine by its ancestry it is here in Saint-Hilaire that the Benedictine monks were the first to make a sparkling wine and it is above all the only appellation of France in sparkling wine which can historically attest to its existence since the Renaissance and how can we attest to this then you have here a copy of the proof of this of the existence of our wines of our sparkling wines it is a document which dates from October 25, 1544 this document says that the clavaves of Limou had offered to the surur of Arc who was the local lord x flask I believe it was two flasks of blanquette so there you go it’s more than a birth certificate since the product already existed since it was offered to the greatest of this world to precious visitors let’s now take altitude after the Limou cellars towards the north of Carcassonnet and the Mountain Black to join Didier our second guide specializing in outdoor tourism Didier especially likes escapades off the beaten track and to begin with he offers us a quite unexpected trip go to the gate we go to the gate my grandfather there you go [Music] hop raising llamas at in the middle of the Montagne Noire it’s Jean-Louis’ crazy idea at home the massif takes on the appearance of the mountain range of the Andes [Music] hello Jean-Louis hello Didier it’s okay and welcome to the Lama yes so I suppose that the lama is not endemic to the Montagne Noire, no at all, well I have the opportunity to go to South America to live for a moment there to meet these animals and to become fascinated for them it is above all a passion and the llama is in reality only found in South America in the courtyard of the Altiplano we will say between 3800 and 6000 m altitude it is used to huge thermal differences here it’s much more comfortable for him Jean-Louis has been passionate about llamas for 20 years, a passion that he wants to share by organizing excursions from his farm to better discover their way of life and here in fact that operates in the family mode or it is a family the lamas live in a desert environment a very poor environment and they will not be able to live in a large herd in a large herd the lamas will live like human beings in a small family the evil producer will open the territory it will open small piles of droppings when the evil has opened the territory it will open a second small territory in the middle of its territory 2 to 3% of the surface this is the regrowth zone scientists have calculated that in an environment as arid as deserted as the Altiplano if the lamins had not invented this small regrowth zone which contains all the seeds which will allow the exploited territory to be resown, the lamins would have destroyed their environment disappeared he gives us an excellent lesson in ecology fabulux [Music] yes so is it a legend or the llama spits the llama spits even better than that and vomit eh we’re going to say it like that when a puma attacks the troop the breeding malâ it’s always the malâ eh will charge the puma by bringing up his thoughts exactly as if he looks like a big ball of grass he will arrive running at not far from 60 km he on the puma and it will propel its food bolus directly into the eyes on the nose of the puma the puma for more than 24 hours 24 hours will not be able to find their trail we are going to go for our little walk you are out for a walk let’s go mountain no Jean-Louis’ walks are the opportunity for a rare moment with an animal that he is just as much but it is also an offbeat way to discover the Black Mountain Jean-Louis knows the massif as well as these animals where you see a bush knows a story we have just changed vegetation there yeah it gives species of small trees there s form of being it must be Faillard that is to say the being mountain and here in Montagne Noire in the forest on the high plateau we had these forest of êtrefillard and we had the charcoal burners who made the charcoal they had ovens specially he put the wood in it heated until it calcines and to obtain the charcoal the famous charcoal the black mountain charcoal was made with the lre Faillard d’cord and the name of black mountain the link then the link if you live in Carcassonne we will tell you that it is because on the Montagne Noire there is always a cloud and that there can be cloud all the time the reality is that we quarry the bone of slate he of micachiste and the charcoal burners who made the coal precisely of Bo always has a black face, hence the name Montagne [Musique] Noire Didier just a word about the walk with the llamas how it goes so really really very surprised I was expecting a fairly capricious animal and then finally it’s a very gentle animal that listens to what we ask of it on the aggressive side well ultimately we realize that even if a priori it is very protective according to what Jean- Louis is also an animal which is really endearing, a world apart like Jean-Louis, open all year round to become knowledgeable about the llama and the history of the Black Mountain, this mountain we stay there because its surprises are not limited to its surface to discover its most striking depths it is underground that we must venture we find Didier accompanied by Michel speleologist to discover the chasm of Cabrespine a treasure under the Montagne Noire the chasm of cavrespine is therefore located at the very beginning of the Montagne Noire on its south slope and in a small limestone bank it is just a small layer in which this cave developed so gigantic the room in which we find is 250 m high so it is almost the torfel good diameter of well 80 m all this dug by water and the beginning of the digging here is 6 million years ago on this upper part but to realize the gigantism and all the beauty of Cabrespine you have to venture deeper into the claustrophobic depths [Music] abstain Cabrespine is in fact a network of guts and cavities 25 km long dug into the limestone by water over the centuries so here we have just made almost 200 m of difference in altitude there and we come to start following a watercourse there which is quite surprising there we know a little about the origin of this watercourse it is the external river which flows in the valley which infiltrated from small cracks which have widened very widely over time so we not only have mechanical erosion, that is to say gravel which will be carried away by the water, but also chemical erosion. You should know that the pH of the water here is relatively bottom and it is by chemical corrosion that is to say by dissolution of the rock that the barrel has enlarged we see these famous concressions can you tell us a word about the yes of course so here it is one of the emblems of cespine it is the pumpkin so are very small crystals which stack up in relation to each other and which will give its shapes so here it is a flow and we can see salactite salmite and other shapes throughout the network and in particular very beautiful draperies a little further that we are going to go and see just we are going to go and see just it is gone so there nature has struck again but from the publicity of the ways of the water which assinted along the walls and which therefore crystallized this very very fine shape a draerie it is less than a cm or 1 cm approximately thick after the concresiontions so here we have the very classic shapes the sal Sal and then when it’s really very very very crystallized as you can see behind me well we have a very marked feeling very impressive and and there we have a scale a little bit of time to create these famous streaks that of time actually we should not see that on the scale of a human life we ​​are a drop of water in an ocean this kind of volume can have a few [Music] thousand allow 5 hours to complete the entire underground safari of the chasm from Cabrespine this journey to the center of the Earth has the added advantage of being accessible all year round and whatever the weather or the water level the water which precisely forged Cabrespine now takes us to the on the other side of the black mountain we find Alexandra our very guide the carcassonnet was born there she made it her passion and even her job guide speaker she will share with us a more historical approach of the territory and to start she takes us to the meeting the last custodians of an economic activity with a flourishing past hello Alexandra hello you are André Duran yes you take care of the bush paper mill the last one in Langedoc for how long well we are the 7th generation on this site knowing that it there were other pasetit before us anyway in the village in our village there were 12 high mills but only six paper mills but in the area there were many more paper mills than that there were around 300 employees in the paper in our village so André let’s get to the heart of the matter let’s discover this making of paper well of course we will first start by making paper pulp before making sheets of paper okay so André we will make this famous paper pulp but I would like to know what the paper is made from, well the paper is quite simple, it is plant-based, a part of the plant is called cellulose and we recover this cellulose by recovering old bedroom linen or cotton clothes that we grind to make this famous paste ah only therefore vegetable materials of the plant but here we still have something more extraordinary and but really rare rare but common in our area and we will go and see all that very well but what is this famous material to which André alludes for a surprise it’s a surprise we are going to lift the lid we must not be afraid Alexandra okay so what is it well there is already the smell which can show what it is it is elephant dung so the animal has eaten plants has not digested the cellulose we recover this cellulose we wash it the paper based elephant dung is the house specialty the idea is not new it dates back to 1841 when to compensate for a shortage of rag we began to make paper based on herbivore dung and since it there are elephants in the Sian African Reserve 1 hour drive from the mill it would be stupid to deprive yourself of them once you have collected their droppings it is washed and loses all its smell then it is ground to obtain this paste so there the dough must be pretty good to make a few sheets of paper we then use a form to recover the material and the sheet comes to life and now you lift it up and there you go and there you have your first sheet of crotin paper undoing the penultimate step the press to tighten the sheet and bind the fibers make the [Music] monkey all that remains is to dry the sheet it goes directly on it one night one night and the same ready for writing and here is a 100% organic paper for for book share or why not aid memory the other well-known quality of [Music] the elephant now heading to the northwest of Carcassonnet for an atypical encounter we find Alexandre there in the company of Jean the owner of the superb abay of villeelongue here he gives free rein to his passion for painting on course it is so invasive that we no longer know where MRE there are everywhere the provincial term is the calu du cougourdon that is to say the fool of the squash of squash where we often find blue but not just any blue Charon blue to which Jean devotes his second passion Charon blue is a bit like pastel blue like that Lectour blue a bot which is very faded and which does not was not made for aesthetic reasons blue kept flies away so we put blue on the carts so that flies would not bother the oxen or horses so this blue to perpetuate it we started to paint the trees B blue in the garden buy blue flower pots that’s for the artistic side of villeelongue but it’s above all the history of the place which is more than 800 years old which is worth the detour we arrive in the cloister the wonder of villeelue pay attention to the walking a truly magnificent gallery and therefore we are a Cistercian abbey therefore an abbey with a long history since it seems to me that this order was created in the 11th century they started with a dozen monks the constructions lasted of course hundreds of years and the great originality of the long city is that we went from a very sober Cistercian order to something very abundant with all these capitals of the 14th century. The Cistercian order is renowned for its austerity and its rigor the wealth architectural architecture of Villelongue Abbey is therefore an exception and it is even more striking in the church which adjoins the cloister so we are in the nave of the church eh of this of this magnificent church what is the specificity precisely here in villeelongue since we know that we have two important periods in terms of construction the first the first period so very simple Romanesque church small openings not to say the historical capital of sculpture then in the 14th we change everything we raise it to Gothic we make B’s and we put these famous historical capitals with details of sculpture of hairdressing clothes which are absolutely extraordinary but which are totally incongruous in an abecienne we should not have things which could divert the least of his prayer between CEL and this character it is a support abayli a messen which supports the weight of abaye it is something quite extraordinary in a Cistercian abaye the abaye of long town is also a place of welcome a git where time seems to stand still without internet television or swimming pool just the charm of the place we decided with my wife of 20 years to set up the guest rooms in this place so we have four guest rooms upstairs in the old dormitory of the monks the abees in which you can sleep it is very rare or they are inhabited abees so we live with the monastic rule therefore certain austerity or otherwise are abees transformed into a luxury hotel but small bees like the notes in which we live like us with us people drink a fart with us in the evening here it’s quite rare it’s what people appreciate the Cistercian calm and tranquility without the austerity of the way of life so that’s it ideal for taking your time and why not learning about squash painting, thank you very much Jean for introducing us to this rare and truly timeless place, we are the ones who thank you for making it known to those who love it. beautiful and the heritage and the history and God knows there are some thank you goodbye to the north of Carcassonne we find Alexandra with a breathtaking view we are going to set off to discover one of the high places of heritage Carcassonne the castles of the source we go there instead of the religion Qatar in the 13th century the astours which comes from the occult lastastor literally the towers are today a place of archaeological excavations alexandra has a meeting with marieélise who has worked here for 30 years hello marieélise hello Alexandra it’s okay it’s okay it’s okay thank you so you didn’t knock before entering and why do you see it’s a door ah it’s a door I’m in a house so you’re in a house but a house which is a few centuries old which is a few centuries old so I wanted to ask you what your relationship was with this place when I did my history thesis I thought it was perhaps wise to take this site which is all quite exceptional for illustrating what was the material civilization and the history of this part of the Montagne Noire in the 13th and 14th century which is, as you know, the Qatar period, which set out to discover these places Marie-Élise and Alexandra launch an attack on the four castles built on a rocky spur at an altitude of 300 m and very quickly history catches up with them Marie-Élise this path seems to me to be completely different from the one we are taking straight away. yeah ah because this one is authentic you see it is dug into the rock we can see it very well and there is the patina of the inhabitants of the mules who passed with their iron and who skated the rock well while climbing we better realizes the alignment of the castles it in fact formed a front facing the south and the main threat of the time Spain and Aragon but the defensive vocation of the place goes back well before the construction of the castles as proven this cave that the path towards Astours crosses, so here we arrive in a cave where everything began in terms of the occupation of the site and which is called the trou de la ville because there was a legend which said that it was a very long cave which connected the castles of Astours to the city of Carcasson of course it is only a legend and there we saw everything without being seen that we see that there are walls that there are holes in the walls and that most certainly it was built perhaps even one of the primitive castles since it is a strong point it prevents passage from the South of the site to the north of the site so it could be one of these cavities which was originally built in the feudal age to install small garrisons the PR first lord in the course of the 11th [Music] century more than a few meters before kertinous the highest castle south of the site the four buildings are also the symbol of the end of Catarism how we know that there were truly Catars here the archive texts which are in particular the archives of the Inquisition which give us a lot of information on what happened at that time it were people who were initially good people quite high in the hierarchy of the Church who Katar who walked from village to village and who managed to convert people these people from the villages who had a somewhat difficult life and who allowed themselves to be converted to a much simpler religion where it was explained to them that evil is everything that is material and good is everything that is spiritual and how this religion will ultimately die, so we don’t know not very well, researchers are still really discussing this but firstly through persecution because there was a lot of terror established by the Inquisition throughout the second half of the 13th century there were also laws who prohibited this that and for example here all the houses were razed because some were inhabited by Qataris and the adjoining houses were also razed and the Qataris were pushed back more and more towards inaccessible refuges and in the end little by little small heresy has melted into the mass but the last ones under Brau are around 1321 the end of Catarism corresponds to the golden age of Carcassonne it is in the 13th century that the construction of the second enclosure of the site begins This is where we find Philippe and Véronique to show us its walls, starting with the space that separates them from the rails there we have a superb perspective on the rails eh we can see very well the two rows of ramparts c It’s smooth, they were houses at one time and in fact they used both parts, there were already two walls built, there were more than walls to build and there we can see next to the piece of Roman ramp the neighborhood more misux the poorest workers of the lower town who finally came to settle here the defense system was based on four gates located at the four cardinal points Véronique and Philippe head towards the Saint-Nazer tower to the south renowned for its view finally when the weather permits or the ascent was hard the last time I went up I was blowing less than that we are at the top at the top of the Saintnazer tower this tower is a very fortified tower eh since there is at the gate one of the four gates of the city below us yeah it’s a lock yeah it’s a Saint-Nazer tower since we are right next to the Saint-Nazer basilica the old Vercassonne cathedral and obviously s ‘the weather was nice today, here I am, I remember a superb view of the Pyrenees, but now it’s completely blocked today, it wasn’t, it wasn’t the day to visit, no, but it was it’s true that normally in good weather we see all the pyenées an absolutely superb view yeah you saw the moss there the path of Rone which connects the towers of the city allows you to admire a defense system typical of the Middle Ages the fronts which face the Café de Philippe you see these fronts from the outside there we are going to take a closer look so a defense system which will protect from the undermining or the mine since the attacker of course will ‘attack the doors at the weak point but he will also try to undermine the wall is that he will dig into the wall below to open a breach so that allows you to overlook it while being sheltered The exceptional state of conservation of the city not only attracts the favors of tourists, it is also a popular place for film shoots in its café Philippe has seen so many stars pass by that he loves to share some anecdotes of his city version set there was Kevin kosner with Morgan Freeman to return to Nottingham they land there there is a cart with hay it’s it’s funny because we imagine that we need a good 50 km and in did he jump 2 or 3 m or Kevin cner he had especially marked us in the in the human register he had the shooting stopped he had the filming stopped because there were a lot of children it was cold perhaps worse today and so that the kids had time to warm up they had to stop a filming at the price these things cost so that the kids have time to warm up, it’s been good, it’s left us with good memories, more than ten films have been shot since the beginning of the 20th century in Carcassonne, keep your eyes peeled for looking at classics like the corneot or visitors you will be able to recognize the medieval city [Music] we now find ourselves to discover another exceptional place less for its beauty than for its mineral resources [Music] brings you today to conne Minervois a few kilometers from Carcasson at the foot of the Montagne Noire for a visit off the beaten track since I offer you the discovery of a red marble quarry. Red cone marble is found almost everywhere in Carcasson but its fame and its history we go far beyond the limits of the ude to make the history and exploitation of marble understandable to us I present to you Kaline Massou who is the chief exploiter we can say that managing the manager of this quarry who will make us understandable a a little at the same time both the history of marble and especially its exploitation and the first traces that we have at the level of CNE marble it is the Romans who began to exploit the quarries after the Romans the written traces that we it is for the construction of the Palace of Versaill, know that 80% of the marbles found in Versaill come from CNE then you should know that CNE marble has traveled a lot for example when you go to Italy in Venice on Saint’s Square -Marc on the church there are a lot of them inside it’s it’s all red the great mosque of Cordou is also clad in marble why because the marbles in Antiquity and in all religions red has a somewhat special meaning for the spiritual, moreover it is called red incarn because the incarnation a reputation which is not only combined with the past the red marble still seduces today in the land of black gold it will equip the floor dedicated to France in the future Kingdom Tower in Jeda in Saudi Arabia, a well-named 1000 m high skyscraper, the largest in the world, work on which will begin in 2014, we arrive at the Notaille front and there we will respond to a very specific order for the tower which will be built in Jed they needed for a bathroom to have a corner all in marble and for the veins to meet, that is to say the horizontal and the vertical we are going to approach see this veinci for example there we will find it opposite and that will make the corner of a bathroom it is only tailor-made and each piece will be treated like that we will come and collect for the order from the quarry directly rest a crucial question how do we extract the cone marble then for the extraction you see that there is a cut at the base there a cut of 4 cm thick the machine which made this cut is an avower then the aveveuse it’s the yellow machine over there it’s a big chainsaw with tungsten tips which turns and which makes this first horizontal cut then behind the face at 2 m we’re going to make another hole a vertical drilling like this one so we are going to pass the cable in the furrow from below and in the hole if you turn around you will start to see the machine see the cable passes over it enters the hole and exits through the furrow as it turns the machine moves backwards on the rails to give you an idea of ​​the resistance of the marble this machine uses a 120 horsepower motor and a cable set with industrial diamond cut by the meter 130 € counts 80 to 100 m of cable for a block like this and you will quickly understand why this marble is to be classified in the great luxury category as evidenced by this fountain of Carcassonne finally our trip to Carcassonnet country cannot be complete without addressing one of its major charms its traditional dishes hello my name is Valérie Laffond I take care of the tourist promotion of the Pays de Carcasson and I’m going to talk to you about gastronomy follow me Valérie takes us to Frédéric the reference of cassoulet in Carcasson hello Fred hi how are we so we have known each other for 10 years yes but This is the first time that I’m going to take part in a course with you. Explain to us how the cassoulet will work. We try to work with good products from the region, so in this case we need Castellar beans. port of the region and the port country Qatar port country Qatar so well for all that we are going to go and get what we need from whom we need perfect we are going there come on come on that’s it youcheris iszar hello Good Christian what is it you advise us to put in our cassoulet today to bring the fat and the and the taste especially good well I will MRE you a little door chin or then of course we must not forget the most important thing which is the homemade sausage the sausage that’s it if we forget the sausage the real sausage a little Coan no if I see that you have corners it’s uncontrollable Lesan it’s like couscous in a bag you have to go and work a little bit that will change I think that with all this we are going to make a good cassoulé cassoul come on day thank you ciao ciao historically the cassoulet was a leftover dish which was eaten on Sunday and was prepared for 7 days the recipe has been shortened since then but you will see it on time remains the key to success and it all starts with the preparation of the meat and well there we go Valérie well since you are here you have to give a little helping hand if you are not afraid oh there it makes you hungry all that good you know that I have two feet instead of hands don’t stretch the knife too much we mark a finger in the cassoulet it can be nice meanwhile Fred prepares the CEN to make a broth 1 hour and a half at least 1 hour and a half of cooking the Coan broth the cassoulé it takes time the pork always has fat to maintain the caressable surfaces very important pretty you cut the pork earlier well now you’re going to saute it there so I’m going to show you like a pancake there you go I’m going to teach you and I can put it everywhere boss I can put it everywhere wrist how it feels yeah yeah but it’s heavy the PO it’s funny that’s it ah there you go you’re a guarantee there we’re not bad so here there you see all that there it’s called the juices it’s the juices of the meat that’s what will give the taste to your cassoulet so you remove all your pieces well brown well look a little water to recover the juices and we mix everything with Castel noodar beans previously blanched 12 hours in advance it is important to use the products that are grown here we then add the Coan broth and the magic begins to work you see look at it cassoulet already it has a splendid color pretty eh we’re going to enjoy it there we’ll still have 1 hour 1 hour left, plenty of time to brown the sausage on one side push the grill with your fingers it’s going to be blond but then comes the assembly without forget the penultimate step we ‘re going to add it ah the confit the duck confit you see it’s a bit just the pots it’s a bit ENF once you’ve eaten that yeah you stall so you can go there afternoon there is no problem you will arrive until the evening meal a last quarter of in the oven and when a crust has formed it is ready even if our restaurateur has a method of his own to evaluate the cooking that’s it that’s it that’s it that’s it that’s it the 15 minutes have passed we open and we admire our [ __ ] W you see and you see that it is cooked because come closer you hear it sung do you hear ah yeah now time for tasting a joy in Carcassonne country the gastronomy toutouchud sacred to be convinced we must not stop at the folkloric aspect of the costumes which came out on this day of the feast of Saint-Vincent here are the guardians of the temple of good drinking and good eating, a unique know-how and values ​​that Valérie makes us discover to make ourselves she has a meeting with Alphonse the organizer of the ceremony sorry hello Alphonse hello Valérie how are you it’s a pleasure and well listen to me too so you are the kingpin of this event the feast of Saint Vincent it’s what is it, really explain to me the purpose of this celebration and why Saint-Vincent Saint-Vincent is the patron saint of winegrowers and so we are here to honor them today we have around ten brotherhoods Bacchic brotherhood gastronomic brotherhood this one is as you see it is Al PL of the greenhouse Bou it is bagous Bou okay so who is visiting us this year with great pleasure there we have the capitous so who are Limou Limou don the vintage Limou are represented so who is going to explain the outfit perhaps the chancellor we have different colors to show the different stages of the vine and the vine leaves which go from red to purple and the blue is because that it’s azure blue it’s azure it’s spring it’s spring and there are the horn blowers who will accompany this wandering in the city center of Carcassonne the horn reverberates in the streets of Carcasson it’s [Music] [Applause] [Music]
excellent good so Alphonse why this stroll and indeed B essentially enliven this heart of the city which is which is magnificent to also introduce the locals and then the people who visit us that there is a love that permeates our city in relation to viticulture so here we are going to the Saint-Vincent church so you explain to me what are we going to do at the Saint-Vincent church -Vincent then a Saint-Vincent without a wine blessing is not a Saint-Vincent yes it seemed completely natural to us and although the wine is uncorked and there is the ritual of blessing that is simply the entry in the Saint-Vincent basilica is a rather rare moment of music since it is the occasion of a surprising exchange between the organ and the horns of [Music] [Applause] Lord our God we ask you to bless this wine the fruit of the vine of the work of the living for the centuries of the centuries Amen so before even deter this evening for the celebration of the earistie I will tell you my it [Music] is and there are many who want to taste it is good no Vincent without a banquet the time of celebration has come for Alphonse and Valérie today it is not river water and even less water of what should not be done well and well listen Alphonse I thank you very much it was great to have explained to us the feast of Saint Vinant and I’m going to give you a big kiss to say goodbye go goodbye and see you next year so for [Music] it’s It is on this invitation that our escapade in the Carcassonne region, history, tradition, flavors ends after what you have just seen traveling in this country and the promise of immersing yourself in a real concentration of discovery and [Music] surprise [Music]