Did you know how the word ‘boudoir originated?
Did you know that the first cinema performance in the Pyrénées-Orientales was the screening of the Folies Bergères in the narrow streets of the promenade des platanes in Perpignan, in 1896? I
This French Christmas character, the ‘whipping father’, said to accompany Santa on his rounds on 6th December, is fortunately no longer heard of much in French tradition.
Franco believed Sardane dancers were passing on coded messages with their feet!
Trees used to be festively decorated with red apples until a drought in 1858 destroyed the apple harvest.
Lord Guillaume de Cabestany was a troubadour, soldier, poet, and lover of Saurimonde, wife of Raimond de Castell-Rossello and subject of many of his poems
The ‘Père Noel du Secours Populaire’ doesn’t hand out presents, he collects them.
History tells the facts – Art tells the story
Short name, small village, but it is instantly clear why medieval Eus is included in the national list of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France.
What do wooden crutches, miniature boats and faint words scrawled on an altar have in common? Each one is a thank you to God or a saint for divine intervention.