| QUILLAN, 27km upstream from Limoux, is a pleasant little town, useful as a staging post on the way south into the mountains or east to the Cathar castles – it has daily bus connections with Perpignan via St-Paul-de-Fenouillet. The only monument of interest is the ruined castle, burnt by the Huguenots in 1575 and partly dismantled in the eighteenth century. The gare SNCF, gare routière and tourist office (summer daily 8am–noon & 2–7pm; rest of year Mon–Fri 9am–noon & 2–6pm, Sat & Sun 9am–noon; tel 04.68.20.07.78, www.ville-quillan.fr) are all together on the main ring road, boulevard de-Gaulle. Good accommodation options on the same street are the Canal at no. 36 (tel 04.68.20.08.62, fax 04.68.20.08.27.96; €30–40), and the Cartier, at no. 31 (tel 04.68.20.05.14, fax 04.68.20.22.57; €30–40), both with restaurants. The Sapinette campsite is at 21 rue René-Delpech (tel 04.68.20.13.52; closed Nov–Feb). There's another campsite by the river at Pont d'Aliès (tel 04.68.20.53.27), a further 11km along the D117 by the junction for Axat and the Gorges de l'Aude. At this junction you'll also find the Maison des Pyrénées Cathares for local information (July & Aug daily 8am–7pm; Sept–June Mon–Fri 8am–noon & 2–6pm; tel 04.68.20.59.61).
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