Wonderful walk with views of Le Massif de Canigou. Very interesting industrial and cultural heritage.
Are you assiduous?
Have you tasted syrup of pine cone à la Canigou yet?
Did you know that the word ‘saunter’ may originate from the French ‘à la sainte terre’ ?
Did you know that “La Marseillaise”, France’s national anthem, was actually composed in Strasbourg in 1792, not in Marseilles as we might assume?
A walk to Port Vendres from Banyuls involving a 10 minute bus ride for 1Euro .
According to legend, around about the tenth century, the infamous Simiots, ‘bêtes féroces assez semblables à des chats et même à des singes’ terrorised Arles-sur-Tech.
On 7th November 1659, the kingdoms of France and Spain signed the Treaty of the Pyrenees, which ended the 30 years war between supporters of Louis XIV of France and those of Philip IV of Spain.
Ramon Faura at the Collections de Saint-Cyprien
A silent drift above the green clad extinct volcanoes of Parc Natural de la Zona Volcànica de la Garrotxa