Chapel of Notre-Dame de La Goutte, Montardit

Small dirt paths lead us without great difficulty to the Note-Dame de Montaut chapel. Accessible via the village located 170m lower, it is in full nature that rises the modest chapel of Montaut. A previous chapel existed before, easily explaining the difference of stone between the two bodies of buildings which constitute it. Indeed, during an annual pilgrimage, on September 8 of a year that one could not specify, the dean priest of Sainte-Croix proceeded to the installation of the first stone of the future chapel, then was planned to raise the walls of the preceding chapel.

This building dating from the 11th, 14th and 15th centuries. The Church was consecrated in 1117 and remained a cathedral until 1655. It was abandoned as a cathedral when the two chapters were united into one, as the city once had two juxtaposed poles.

This abbey was founded in 1138 by the Earl of Pallars, for his own son who became the leader of the abbey. A few years later, the abbey welcomeed Louis VII, on his way to Compostela. The 14th century turned out to be very prosperous for the abbey, which accommodated at this time close to a hundred monks of the order of the Prémontrés. The 15th century saw the decline of the abbey, which experienced a succession of events: the Black Death, the Hundred Years War and then the wars of religion. The Revolution also affected the abbey, which was pillaged, burnt down and finally sold in 1791.