A stunningly beautiful drive or a pretty steep cycle ride.
What’s on around the region in May 2026
Each year, the association, Ascension Flamenca, hosts a Flamenco festival, celebrating the rich and dramatic traditional art form.
Everyone loves a vide-grenier! Check out these dates and let us know if we’ve missed any.
The clever network of signal towers (tours à signaux) that you see on the high mountain tops around the region date back to the 13th century. They were originally set up by the Rois de Majorque as a defence system to protect the Roussillon from invaders and to enable the passing of information around the region, using fire and smoke signals.
Dina Vierny – Maillol’s Muse Born in Kishinev, in what is now Moldova, in 1919, Dina Vierny and her family moved to France where young Dina became model, muse and platonic companion for artist Maillol,…
One of the most spectacular ridge walks on the Côte Vermeille
Above the gleaming white fishing town of Port de la Selva, in the province of Girona, stands the Benedictine monastery of Sant Pere de Rodes constructed into the side of the Verdera mountain.
Originally set up by the Rois de Majorque as a defence system to protect the Roussillon from invaders, the tours de signaux (signal towers) allowed information to be passed quickly around the region, using fire and smoke signals.
Mindfulness has become a bit of a buzzword lately. Something we’re constantly told we should be doing more of, yet somehow never seem to have time for. Let’s be honest, who really has time to…