Saturday 30 avril 2016 Hall of Honour, Town Hall, Banyuls sur Mer from 9:30 to 13:00 MEET THE WRITERS AND EDITORS FROM BANYULS-SUR-MER and the entire department of PYRENEES ORIENTALES for a morning of discovery…
Saturday 11th – Sunday 12th October 2014 – Banyuls-sur-Mer FETE DES VENDANGES Local product market, grape pressing, musical entertainment in the village streets, special ’vendanges ball’, blessing of the harvest, arrival by sea of…
Saturday 3rd August 2013 at 17h Show Patrouille de France French Aerobatics Display over the port of Banyuls (Red Arrows style) This yearly events is guaranteed to leave you with…
Beside the Seaside….from Blackpool to Banyuls-sur-Mer Basil Howitt emerges from convalescence to enjoy a day out in Banyuls-sur-Mer. He also listens to several Catalan Cobla bands. “Oh I do like to be beside the seaside!…
This walk is not too difficult, but it is quite long, taking us about 5 hours in total (with a sandwich stop for lunch!). It is approx 10.5km long with about 500m of ascent and descent.
Cherry trees are the last to blossom and the first to bear fruit. As the pink of the peach flowers fade and fall, a white lace spreads itself over the cherry orchards surrounding Céret. Céret…
An initial climb of a craggy path followed by an ancient undulating GR10 track to the Col de Llagoste at 255m.
When General de Gaulle published a list of 1,038 resistance heroes who contributed to the liberation of France; only six were women
A “Lest we Forget” drive around the Pyrenees Orientales can be the moment to visit or revisit some of the villages and enjoy the autumn colours whilst taking in some of the fascinating War and anti war Memorials.
Walter Benjamin, (1892 – 1940) German-Jewish literary critic, fierce critic of Nazism and posthumously one of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers, has a plaque dedicated to him in Banyuls-sur-Mer.
