Friday
08:00–13:00
Foix Market
Halle aux Grains and the streets around it · 30 minutes
Pyrénées · Within an Hour
What’s On in the Ariège
Markets, fairs, festivals and mountain days across the Ariège, all within an hour of the château.
Ce qui se passe What is happening
This Week
15 October – 21 October
At the château 16°C clear
Saturday
08:00–13:00
Tarascon-sur-Ariège Producers' Market
Place du 19 mars · 15 minutes
Saturday
08:00–13:00
Saint-Girons Market
Place des Poilus, and along the Salat · 1 hour 15
Sunday
08:00–13:00
Les Cabannes Market
Place des Platanes · 3 minutes
Sunday
08:00–13:00
Ax-les-Thermes Market
Place Roussel · 25 minutes
Monday
08:00–13:00
Mirepoix Market
Place des Couverts · 53 minutes
Wednesday
08:00–13:00
Tarascon-sur-Ariège Market
Place Jean-Jaurès · 15 minutes
Le pays The country
Ariège
L’Ariège
The Ariège is one of the quietest corners of France: the Pyrénées, Cathar castles on their peaks, caves painted in prehistory, spa towns and market squares, and brocantes through the summer.
The château is a base for all of it, and a place to come back to at the end of the day. Most of the workshops, the full experience, take you out to the fairs.
Places
Towns and Places Nearby
Tarascon-sur-Ariège · about fifteen minutes
The nearest town, with its markets and its cafés
Ax-les-Thermes · about twenty minutes
A spa town in the mountains, with skiing at Ax 3 Domaines in winter, about half an hour away
Niaux · about twenty minutes
Painted caves, and one of the few places in Europe where you can still see the original prehistoric paintings
The Plateau de Beille · about twenty-five minutes
High pastures and forest: cross-country skiing in winter, walking in summer
Foix · about half an hour
The castle of the Counts of Foix, above the old town
Andorra · about an hour
Up the valley past Ax to the border at Pas de la Casa: shops open almost every day of the year, and the Grandvalira ski area in winter
Mirepoix · just under an hour
A medieval square of timbered houses and covered arcades, and one of the best brocante towns in the region
Montségur · about three quarters of an hour
The Cathar castle on its peak, and the last stand of the Cathars
Le ski Skiing
Skiing Nearby
Ax 3 Domaines, above Ax-les-Thermes, is about half an hour from the château; the Plateau de Beille, for cross-country skiing, about twenty-five minutes; and Andorra about an hour.
Ax 3 DomainesPhoto Sébastien D'Arco, CC BY-SA 2.5 
Ax 3 Domaines, the SaquetPhoto Antoine Blondin, CC BY-SA 3.0 
Bonascre, the foot of the slopesPhoto Maxime Lorant, CC BY-SA 4.0 
The Plateau de BeillePhoto Pierre-Selim Huard, CC BY 4.0 
Ax-les-Thermes, the hot springsPhoto Richard Mortel, CC BY 2.0 
Ax-les-ThermesPhoto Richard Mortel, CC BY 2.0
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