Did you know that Marmite was named after a French cooking-pot?
Un médecin est convoqué devant le conseil de discipline de l’hôpital de Perpignan pour avoir insulté une infirmière.
Many people of ‘a certain age’ will remember all the fuss about the banning of Serge Gainsborough’s ‘Je t’aime (moi non plus)’, which only served to make it so much more popular.
The hunting season is open. Advice for staying safe when out walking or riding.
In the 12th century, Catalans already had a well developed sense of identity and pride
His stage name of Le Petomane (loosely translated as “the farter”) rather gives it away!
With Canigou at its back and the River Tech in front, the views all around the fortified medieval town of Prats de Mollo are stunning. But it was not merely built for the view!
The painting, now hanging in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, famously shocked the bourgeois society of his time.
Travelling on the left was actually made official in 1300 AD, when Pope Boniface VIII decreed that pilgrims to Rome should keep left.
The beautiful castle in the heart of the Albères is said to be haunted by the ghost of a British spy – and is now free and open to visit.