Gégants are enormous painted figures, several metres tall, constructed on a wooden framework with heads made from paper maché and plaster of paris – a tradition which goes back to the Middle Ages, depicting religious figures in parades.
Sanctuary – retreating to Argelès to wind down from his high pressure job as a Scenes of Crime Officer with Scotland Yard, P-O Life reader, Larry Henderson, gives us an insight in to his exciting life
Taking place on or around 23rd April each year, the festival of Sant Jordi celebrates the Patron saint of Catalonia, French equivalent of St George.
We love a good bottle of wine here at P-O Life, that much is clear. Just don’t ask us to decode anything about “bold structure” or “hints of strawberry on the nose”… if the label’s…
Efficiency, musicality, and a bit of showmanship all rolled into one.
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The ‘Castell de Sant Ferran’, built in Figueres in the mid 18th century, is the largest bastioned fortress in Europe and could house 4,000 men.
Suzanne’s spinach balls … Nutmeg Spinach Balls for aperos or side dish
A rather suitable rainy weather joke. Well, it made me laugh!
The clever network of signal towers (tours à signaux) that you see on the high mountain tops around the region date back to the 13th century. They were originally set up by the Rois de Majorque as a defence system to protect the Roussillon from invaders and to enable the passing of information around the region, using fire and smoke signals.