According to David Garcia, the creator and director of the music festival in Argelès, the festival brings €9.62 in economic benefits for every €1 of support from the local government, in addition to which there is also a lot of favourable media coverage of the area.
Five years after the death in 2011 of much loved Catalan singer Jordi Barre, his home town of Argelès-sur-Mer, where he he was born in 1920, pays tribute by naming a road after him. The road…
Beagle named Eden lost in Collioure on 11 April. Eden is very timid, and slipped his leash on the chemin de la Galère between Collioure and the Fort St Elme. He will be frightened, and…
If you want to find out more about the history and heritage of Argelès, pop into the tourist office, capitainerie, Casa de l’Albera, parc de Valmy and grab yourself a Pass découvertes. It’s free, and…
Those of us who are physically impaired or disabled may well have noticed lately that there are new signs to remind the fit people that these special spaces are reserved parking spaces for the disabled.
The irony is clear. If you take that place, take my disability
The Vice President of the new region has suggested that, rather than object that the suggestions for the new name don’t include the idea of “catalan-ness”, the elected representatives should change the name of the department from the Pyrénées-Orientales which doesn’t mean anything particularly pertinent!
At a cost of 9 million pounds to Britain’s tax payers (34p per household), the government has created a new website and published a leaflet, ‘Why the Government believes that voting to remain in the…
Property sales rebounded in the first quarter of 2016 with an increase of sales on the coast and in the mountains of between 5 and 10% according to the president of the FNAIM of the P-O which represents 2 out of 5 estate agencies. Sales in Perpignan were a little less buoyant and prices were stable across the territory.
It’s in the Bag From July 2016, France will finally follow the UK by banning single-use plastic bags, (sacs plastique à usage unique) or charging for them in all French shops, to reduce litter and encourage…
RECENT STRIKES. WHAT’S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT? The ‘El Khomri law’ is named after the French Minister of Labour, Myriam El Khomri, it’s instigator. It covers the extending of a ‘normal’ 35 hour working week…