Malegoude: Holiday apartments and holiday homes

By 1062 at the latest, Malegoude had a fortified castle, which was probably located at the site of the “fume du Castélas”. The “force de Malegoude” is documented in a charter from 1207 and is presumably interpreted as a small fortified structure.

Anyone wishing to visit Malegoude and rent a holiday apartment plans their stay directly at this destination.

Landscape

The Razès de Mirepoix area includes the municipality of Malegoude; its eastern part has several hill basins in the area around Malegoude and Sainte-Foi. The area to which Malegoude belongs has been classified as a “site inscrit” under the 1930 law and designated as a site under the Habitats Directive. It features orchid-rich dry grasslands, Mediterranean-influenced evergreen shrubland, forests and woodland edges, rocks, and a network of water bodies. Malegoude offers panoramic views of the Pyrenees mountain range.

Culture

The Sainte-Marie Church stands away from the village of Malegoude and has been mentioned in written records since 1318. Its apse is probably of Romanesque origin. At the church, the façade design and some floor plans point in particular to contributions from the 19th century.

Malegoude is considered a very dispersed village without streets. Until the phylloxera crisis put an end to this economic activity at the beginning of the 20th century, Malegoude was a wine-growing municipality.

Hiking

The GR®78, the Chemin du Piémont Pyrénéen, is a pilgrimage trail to Santiago de Compostela. It passes through Ariège via Mirepoix and Saint-Lizier and then continues into Spain. Over a distance of 700 kilometres, the GR®78 connects Montpellier and Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port.

The national initiative “1,000 Hands for the Way of Saint James”, held annually on the first Saturday in October, was offered in Malegoude on Saturday, 7 October 2023, as a community effort to enhance the Way of Saint James.

Further destinations: Le Pla, Niaux, Durfort, Ornolac-Ussat-Les-Bains, Massat, Villeneuve-Du-Latou, Château-Verdun, Serres-Sur-Arget.

To the higher-level travel overview: Ariège.