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here the hermitage of saint Antoine in the throats dde Galamus at the time of the mini meeting YOU with Didi and Didier, time was not really of the part rain and fog, as I could present the mill of Cucugnan to you, I did what I could to draw a suitable photograph from this picturesque corner

This hermitage exists since VIIe century. Initially reduced to only one cave where the basins are, the place contains today a vault stuck to the wall of the Throats. Many old genévriers of Phénicie of more than five hundred years cling to the rocks overhanging the staircases going down on the interior court. The vault was built following the "miracle" of 1782 during which many villagers of Saint Paul de Fenouillet were saved of an epidemic of "suette" (kind of gangrene where one sweats much) grace the protection of Saint-Anthony. For this day, to the medium of the rocks a plane tree almost without water has led. It is immense today and proposes its peaceful shade with the visitors. The places were refitted in XVème century by the franciscains. They then became a traditional place of pilgrimage the Easter Mondaies for Occitans and the Whit Mondays for all the south of Occitanie and Catalonia. The site of the hermitage was used as place of turning of scenes of following films: • China my pain (Price Jean Vigo) in 1989, • the Ninth door of Polanski Novel in 1998. The throats of Galamus Agly or "river of eagles" which runs at the bottom of the throats of Galamus is a small river come from Pech de Bugarach which dug this deep notch several tens of meters in the rock. This same river dug in the south the Ditch of Insane in another calcareous barrier. This place contains a rare geological rock formed by sources. This rock is called tufa. The Agly river is fed by many sources and sometimes hot resurgences (27°C) that one finds all along the throats. An abundant source (150L/s) ensures the water consumption of the village downstream, Saint-Paul-of-Fenouillet. The Throats geologically consist of limestones and dolomites of the Jurassic lower than the lower Cretaceous (between -205 and -108 million years). These rocks modelled a rough and tormented relief.

Located at the border of the department of the Aude and the department of Pyrenees-Eastern, the Throats of Galamus are localised on the communes of Cubières and Saint-Paul-of-Fenouillet in theEastern ones. The Throats are directed along the North-South axis on a distance from 2km. The Throats are to 38 km in the north-ouest/ouest of Perpignan and to 7.5 km in the west of the Castle of Peyrepertuse on the road of the Cathares castles

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