Art, music and cinema….things to do, places to go…….
During the month of December, the church of Collioure will become a living canvas as Keroscène, a local production company lights up the emblematic bell tower.
St Joan de les Abadesses is probably not a town one would choose for a holiday break. Quite unprepossessing, and other than the monastery at its centre, there isn’t much to detain the traveller here. But the monastery was what we’d come to see, so we parked up and walked over the gorgeous 15th century Pont Vall, the old bridge over the Ter into the town. It was a promising start — the sun was shining and the river was lined with allotments and willow trees.
A weekly update of local news in the Pyrenees-Orientales
Artist Antoni Clavé was one of the many thousands of Spaniards who had to flee from the forces of Franco (the “retirada”) and ended up in a camp near Perpignan.
What’s on around the region in February 2019
A weekly update of local news in the Pyrenees-Orientales
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