Another day, another Rigaud : Ellen Turner Hall imagines herself as Perpignan legend, Hyacinthe Rigaud, as he paints his famous Self Portrait.
The latest show at the Pavillon des Arts in Port Vendres is a pleasing marriage of painting and sculpture.
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Mama also makes a mean gazpacho, or as she calls it, salmorejo, which is the version from Cordoba in Spain
An update of local news in the Pyrenees-Orientales
Decorated donkeys and colourful Catalan kids.
Don’t forget to update your ‘controle technique’ (MOT)
Plein Soleil tells a dramatic story, touching and violent and hopeful in turns.
This poem is hard to understand for those who have never lived in the Midi, or southern part of France, but once the hot summer days have been experienced, it makes perfect sense.
Blue-black peaks serrate the skyline on the Spanish side, the Roussillon plains sprawl all the way to the Corbière mountains, and the sea seems to stretch to the end of the world.