Escape Across the Pyrenees During the Occupation
In February 1944, a Resistance fighter walked into a tobacconist’s shop on Place Arago and shot Henri Treyeran
How about a day out in an iconic Citroën 2CV?
Towards the end of August 1944, resistance fighters from all around the region fought Germans and French militia to take back Perpignan.
The enemy did not always wear a German uniform.
Collaboration was more widespread than romantic accounts of French resistance would have us believe
Have you ever wondered what the D in D-Day stands for?
The Avions war memorial at Port Vendres quotes the now legendary tribute from Winston Churchill to the heroic pilots and aircrews who, from June to October 1940 fought the Battle of Britain.
The enemy did not always wear a German uniform.
Beneath its tranquillity lies one of the darkest chapters in the department’s history..