Towards the end of August 1944, resistance fighters from all around the region fought Germans and French militia to take back Perpignan.
How about a day out in an iconic Citroën 2CV?
It is so very important that we never allow this to happen again.
Love and War in the Pyrenees by Rosemary Bailey is available in paperback, the cover glowing with the colourful stripes so familiar to lovers of the Catalan fabric of St Laurent de Cerdans.
Have you ever wondered what the D in D-Day stands for?
French writer and poet describes the massacre as unspeakable, its wounds so deep that we dare not mention them, in this desolate poem, ‘Oradour’.
When General de Gaulle published a list of 1,038 resistance heroes who contributed to the liberation of France; only six were women
One of the most successful escape routes for allied airmen wishing to cross the border into Spain was right here in the P-O, known as the Pat Line, after the man who set it up.
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.
The war is nearing it’s end. The Germans occupying France are on edge and expecting the Allied Invasion at any time.
