Angels stand above the holy water basin borne by a startling devil inside the doorway of Rennes-le-Chateau's church

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Discoveries of valuable parchments and/or buried Cathar treasure by the 19th-century parish priest Béranger Saunière who used his unexplained wealth for lavish and eccentric building works are among a host of mysteries--including plots on the life of Jesus--that feed conspiracy theories, many books and a flow of tourists to tiny mountaintop Rennes-le-Chateau

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Location: Rennes-le-Chateau Aude Languedoc-Roussillon France
Photo credit: © Marion Kaplan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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