Some Tour de France french vocab to help you follow the race.
Look out for ‘La Reyne de las Founs’, man made rock formation surrounding a source coming out of the mountain, forming a pretty waterfall and stream.
Osmose represents the interaction between the two artistic universes of sculptor Agnes Bogaert and painter Christelle Romulus, currently at the Domaine Claire Mayol in Port Vendres.
This classic tour of the Capcir plateau follows good footpaths, waymarked in yellow and takes around 6 hours, starting and ending in Les Angles village centre
In the sumptuous surroundings of the Chateau de Jau and its former silk-factory turned exhibition space, Nicolas Cussac’s art has found a home for the summer.
This winter, 2024, Chateau d’Aubiry will host ‘Les Splendeurs de Chine’, a theme park dedicated to Chinese culture, with 2,600 lanterns.
A whole host of interesting facts about the region and further afield for your reading pleasure. So, did you know…?
Marie-Thérèse Figueur was one of the few French female soldiers to enlist in the French Revolutionary Army and fight in the Napoleonic Wars.
Empúries, (coming from the Greek “Emporion” meaning market place or shopping centre) lies midway between the Costa Brava town of L’Escala and the tiny village of Sant Martí. Archeology fans will be in ruins heaven!
Prayer and working the land went hand-in-hand for the Augustine monks living at the Serrabone Priory in the 11th century.