n the beginning : A mountain range The Malepère mountain range was formed at the end of the Tertiary period, during the formation of the Pyrenées. Mont Naut, at 442m, gives a magnificient panoramic view of 360° of Carcassonne, the Lauragais plain & the Razès hills. In the middle distance, other mountain ranges can be seen - la Montagne Noire (the Black Mountain), the Corbières & the splendid Pyrenées ! he Landscape : Softness & Light The major part of the massif is wooded (oak copse) & the landscape can take the visitor by surprise with its vivid greenery & rounded hilltops. This creates an archetypal image of the South West.
This is the crossroads between the mixed & cereal farming to the West & the Lauragais, & the single crop vineyards of the Eastern Languedoc. Here is a picture, brilliantly illustrated by the pointillist painter Achille LAUGE, of the fields, oak woods & the superb mosiac of vines which give La Malepère its shade & colour.