Did you know that it is likely that tennis was first played in France?
Allons enfants de la Patrie… Did you know that “La Marseillaise”, France’s national anthem, was actually composed in Strasbourg in 1792, not in Marseilles as we might assume? The song was originally entitled ‘Chant de…
Aristotle said ‘One swallow does not a summer make’, but when these harbingers of spring and summer promise arrive in the P-O we know for sure that winter is over.
Built in 1976 from stones and rubble excavated from the building of the motorway, the pyramid overlooking the A9 at the old French/Spanish border point is a purely decorative sculpture created by Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill
Have you ever wondered why some beaches have random-looking old walls built on them?
An update of local news in the Pyrenees-Orientales
A (very brief) HISTORY OF THE PYRENEES-ORIENTALES Finding out a little about the history of the region can teach us where many of the towns and villages of the Pyrénées Orientales got their names. Architectural…
We often have springtime rain here in the P-O, but none to match the 20th May 1868 in Molitg les Bains when 313 mm fell in one hour.
Who invented the Rousquille? Was it Touron in Arles sur Tech or pastry chef Marius Séguela of Amelie?
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.