Fitou is a locality of the Aude, Occitan region, bordering the Pyrénées-Orientales, 38 km south of Narbonne and 30 km north of Perpignan.
The municipal territory is bordered on the west by the foothills of the Corbières and on the east by the lake Leucate, a lagoon of 5,400 hectares separated from the Mediterranean by a narrow coastline.
The village was formed in the 10th century when a feudal castle was substituted for an ancient oppidum, Fitou already appearing on the route of the Via Domitia Roman road linking Italy to Spain. It was during this period that the first vineyards were planted.
Border city with the kingdom of Aragon until the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, having had to suffer many invasions and conflicts, the town that developed at the foot of the castle took off in the nineteenth century when viticulture becomes the flagship of its economy. It remains so despite the phylloxera crisis and the First World War. This is how the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée Fitou is the first appellation of Languedoc in 1948. Its wines and leisure linked to its exceptional environment at the foot of the Corbières and the lake of Leucate, appreciated by surfers and Windsurfers like oysters and clam lovers, make Fitou (about 1000 inhabitants) a must.
