It features in almost every book and article written about the place, and many people, including Yours Truly, have always thought that it was an aerial photograph. On this crag are situated the ruins of the Chateau de Le Bezu, and it is from right up here on the top, overlooking the sheer drop of several hundred metres, that the photograph of Rennes-le-Chateau has been taken. But before you begin to set off here in droves, let me give you a couple of words of warning. There is not one single signpost to the Chateau from anywhere.
There is no approved rounte and no marked pathway. I found my way by tapping in the co-ordinates of Longitude and Latitude and following a series of cart tracks by trial end error until I could go no further.
Here, I was able just about to make out some stone blocks interwoven between the limestone outcrops good job I had some binoculars and so I reckoned that I could well be onto something here. While I was reflecting over how I was going to reach the top I was joined by another van-driver.
I fell in with him and we immediately started talking solar panels as his van was fitted out exactly as Caliburn, even down to the solar panel on the roof and the control boxes. Fortune really does smile on the brave!
You can do your own research from that point of view, and good luck to you too. Let me just tell you this, though. Just beyond that peak is the Mediterranean and the port of Narbonne, and Narbonne has until very modern times been the leading port of Southern France and Northern Spain remember until the late 15th Century the Muslems were in possession of much of the Spanish coast.
