The small town of Toulouges was chosen by the church in 1027 for the signing of the ‘Truce of God’ (Treuga Dei), an attempt to limit violence in a feudal society where the smallest disputes between lords and knights, and even whole counties were regularly settled by war and violence.

The Parc Natural Cap de Creus is a protected national park which extends from Port de la Selva to Roses, just south of the Spanish border, and is the easternmost point of the Iberian Peninsula.

Winter in the Pyrénées-Orientales. Autumn may be behind us, spring may be up ahead….but winter has much to praise here in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
Many dry, sunny days, and yes, cloud, wind and rain too, but there aren’t that many so take those as duvet days,