 Rennes-le-Château

Rennes-le-Château () is a small commune approximately 5 km (3 miles) south of Couiza, in the Aude department in Languedoc in southern France.This hilltop village is known internationally, and receives tens of thousands of visitors per year, drawn by conspiracy theories surrounding a putative buried treasure discovered by its 19th-century priest Bérenger Saunière, the precise nature of which is disputed among those who credit its existence.