Green Horizons Eco Glamping

Nearby there’s supervised swimming, a playground and a sandy beach at Puivert lake, or art- and music-themed activities at the Quercorb Museum, both an easy 15-minute amble from base. Also from right near the site you can join the Cathar Way walking trail to reach the best known of all the region’s castles – Château de Montségur – famed as the final stronghold of the Cathars, as well as several other spectacular historic sites. Eight kilometres away the kid-friendly medieval reenactments of Chalabre Castle take place too during July and August. The site’s Haute Vallée locale between the high Pyrenees (a tiptop ski spot) and the magnifique Mediterranean coast provides a varied landscape of lakes, rivers, foothills and forests for all sorts of outdoorsy opps, from skiing and snowboarding in winter to hiking, climbing, lake swimming, cycling, paragliding, horse riding, sailing, kayaking, whitewater rafting and caving the rest of the year round. Montbel Lake – one of Europe’s biggest watersports lakes – is also 20 minutes' drive from Puivert for water-based adventures. For wine and food aficionados, vineyards abound around the local area for wine tasting tours, and heaps of farmers’ markets are within easy driving distance too for sampling regional cheeses, meats, artisan breads and pastries, plus seeing colourful displays of locally grown (and seasonal) fruits and veggies. The city of Mirepoix and its medieval arcades, weekly market and cafés is a speedy half an hour's drive, while the ancient UNESCO-listed hilltop citadel of Carcassonne and the spectacular tree-lined Canal du Midi lie are a little further afield, around an hour’s drive away.