Experience the Middle Ages as if you were there!

Welcome to the XNUMXth century! The Château de Foix offers the visitor an immersion in the Middle Ages.

First we familiarize ourselves with the time, we discover an interactive museum and fun of 2000m² allowing to be the witnesses of the life of the counts of Foix.

Then place for immersion in the castle : banquet hall, count's bedroom, stone-cutting workshop, blacksmith or demonstration of war and construction machines.

our practical advice

⏰ Duration of the excursion: 1 day

(I.e. Entrance ticket to the Château de Foix : 23€ for 2 adults and 36€ for a family with 2 children. Plan 4 hours of visit.

(I.e. Budget Escape Room: count 100€ for 5 people if you want to do the Escape Game of the castle “The treasure of the Cathars”! (weekends only). Escape Game in the evening: €120.

☀️ Best season: May/June and September/October, enjoy the entertainment without the crowds or the summer heat!

THE DEPARTMENTAL MUSEUM,

A PLAYFUL SPACE

Discover the life of the Counts of Foix, their conquests, their defeats, their unions. Armours, models, interactive tablets, immersive hunting book... each piece makes you discover this fascinating universe that is the Middle Ages.

Photo: The departmental museum ©SESTA

THE CASTLE OF

COUNTIES OF FOIX

Enter the towers of the castle where each room awaits you with reconstructed period furniture : guard room, banquet room, count's bedroom...

Find out what the Château de Foix looked like!

Photo: The kitchen of the castle of the Counts of Foix ©Charles Ripon – Ariège Pyrénées Tourisme

The castle of the Counts of Foix ©Our Hearts Travellers-Ariège Pyrénées Tourisme

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La Chignole, Martha… these characters straight from the Middle Ages make you live their daily life as stonemasons, blacksmiths, you will discover war and construction machines such as the trebuchet, the drum winch... immersion guaranteed!

The squirrel wheel ©S.Meurisse-Ariège Pyrénées Tourisme

The “Treasure of the Cathars” Escape Game

One hour, one team, one investigation. Can you find the treasure of the Cathars?

In full crusade against heretics, it is said that the last Cathars would have hidden their treasure and perhaps even the Holy Grail at the foot of the castle of Foix … The Inquisitor is at the gates of the fortress and you therefore have one hour, the time he attends mass, to find his remains and put them in a safe place...

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Accessible by train from Toulouse. Toulouse – La Tour de Carol line.
Part of the combined offer Lio Grands Stes Occitanie (-50% on the train ticket and reduction on the ticket for the visit of the castle).