This 350km cross-border cycle loop passes through 53 towns and villages, including our beautiful P-O, the Costa Brava, Girona, the volcanic Garrotxa region and the Col d’Ares above Prats de Mollo…
Many of us have taken to the hot springs of Dorres without knowing anything of its interesting history during the Second World War. The fashionable contempt in which the French hold the clergy seems to have been completely unjustified in that era…..but judge for yourselves.
British soldiers, arriving at the camp in April 1945 were met with around 10,000 unburied corpses lying where they had died.
Silent Phone Calls in France Could Clone Your Voice
One of the most successful escape routes for allied airmen wishing to cross the border into Spain was right here in the P-O, known as the Pat Line, after the man who set it up.
We all learn differently, and as we grow older, one of the greatest blocks to learning is memory. And yet many of us can still sing along to new songs – and remember the words!
USAP’s first French championship victory in 1914 should have marked the beginning of a golden era.
From their small grocery shop in Perpignan, the 3 courageous Sabaté women, joined the fight against fascism.
How was the unknown soldier (le Soldat inconnu) chosen?
In 1940, Louis Torcatis joined the French Resistance under the pseudonym Bouloc and became head of the secret army of Languedoc Roussillon.