Sitting on a smooth boulder watching the Lentilla river tumbling over rounded rocks, swirling and eddying, forming pools and providing perfect picnic spots, is a pretty idyllic experience. Bright dragonflies dart over the surface, ultramarine…
A refreshing change Tired of sand in every orifice? When the sea is calm and the sun is smiling, the beach is always a pleasure in the PO but sometimes it’s refreshing to leave the…
During the Second World War, resistance movements in the Pyrenees-Orientales helped hundreds of refugees, allied soldiers and airmen to escape from occupied France across the border into Spain.
Summer is well and truly here and if you’re finding the heat too much, why not celebrate her arrival in higher altitudes and picnic on the slopes of a conjuratory?
This walk, exploring the Forêt d’Argelès, starts by leaving the D914 at junction 13 and at the roundabout follow the sign for Mas Cristine…
The end of the Spanish civil war led to an influx of Spanish refugees into the Pyrénées Orientales. Known as the Retirada (retreat in Spanish), this was a fairly ignominous chapter in the local history complete with concentration camps
Get to know Argelès-sur-Mer Would you really like to get to know Argelès-sur-Mer? Its history? The legends? Join one of the thematic, guided walks, organized by the Casa de Albera for the past ten…
For those of us in the know there is an unfathomable amount of mountain biking potential here. Between the summits and the sea you can ride to your heart’s content on trails suited to all abilities.
Marie-Thérèse Figueur (1774 – 1861), nicknamed Mademoiselle Sans-Gêne (without shame), was one of the few French female soldiers to enlist in the French Revolutionary Army and fight in the Napoleonic Wars.
Nearly 30 years after his death in 1989, Salvador Dalí’s remains were exhumed this week in order take DNA samples to resolve a paternity case. He was buried in a crypt beneath the Dali museum in Figueres.