Discover the pyrénées orientales department

Discover the old vestiges in historical cities but also a prestigious inheritance to visit…

Discover eyne  Preserved from mass tourism, Eyne and its Valley offer all the typicity of the life of mountain, a traditional architectural heritage, a piece of intact nature.

Discover banyuls-sur-mer  Nested with the hollow of the Pyrenees, a beach, a port, vines: here are what you discover while arriving at Banyuls-on-Sea. Your curiosity will then push you in the lane S of the Cape d' Osne then a little further until Puig del Mas, old a oppidum Roman where the spirit of the village remains sharper. Beyond, to the Collar of Banyuls, the vineyards extend on more than 6000 km of terraces and dry stone walls. It is on this soil that is born this noble and rare wine which bears the name of “Banyuls”. Your walk in the back country will take you along through the plantations of mimosas, olive-trees, prickly peartrees, to the Maillol Museum where works of the large artist are preserved. From return downtown, you will pass by the Romance church of Rectorie built to the XI° century. You will walk then on the sea front which will lead you to the port. At the same time picturesque pleasure and fishing port, skirted by the Alleys Maillol, it is animated by the workshops of the artists and the AQUARIUM created in 1885 by the University of PARIS. Walks at sea and plunged underwater will bring you to discovered cliffs and caves, of an exceptional fauna and flora, D '' a single natural reserve. The artist and sculptor, painter and poet, Manuel Perez Valiente are more known of his Catalan friends under the name of Manolo Valiente. For some, he is even “Juan de Pena”… Spanish refugee at the time of “Retirada”, in 1936, it arrived at the concentration camp of Argelès-on-Sea, in the Eastern Pyrenees (France). From there, after the end of the war, it was established with Banyuls-on-Sea where its work developed, masterly, single, resolutely turned towards new creations very “valientesques”… The come evening, you will taste impossible to circumvent aperitif, with the terrace of a coffee, the sound of the sardane.

Discover saint laurent de cerdans  In the middle of High Vallespir, and within an environment privileged vis-a-vis the mythical solid mass of Canigou, combining softness and sun of the Mediterranean climate, you will join again here with a calm and serene nature, far from pollution, in the fresh air of the vast forests of chestnuts forming a bosky bower. At only hour of road of all the great centers of interests of the department but also with some steps of Spain (4 km), SAINT LAURENT then becomes a place of stay favorable to all. Its industrial past gave him its current aspect and its rich person working history.

Discover the town of sournia  Welcome in Haut-Fenouillèdes, the Natural south side The Office of Tourism of Haut-Fenouillèdes presents to you the activities and services for a short stay, holidays, an escape in kind or a simple weekend. Located in the back-country of Perpignan, Haut-Fenouillèdes will allure the amateurs of country holidays, rural tourism and diversity.

Discover elne  Located in the middle of the Eastern Pyrenees, between sea and mountain (with 4km of the sea and with the foot of the Pyrenees), the city illibérienne profits from a single framework and a privileged environment. Place chief of canton of 6500 inhabitants, Elne was in Antiquity on one of the only terrestrial passages possible between the Iberian world and the Mediterranean gaule. Its brisk market is the reflection of a thousand-year-old and still alive agricultural tradition. Vines, orchards and market gardenings make of Elne a ground of savours. Top of sound oppidum, occupied since three millenium old meadows, Elne dominates the plain of Roussillon from which it is the oldest city. Strong 26 centuries of uninterrupted existence, episcopal see of the Life at the XVIIe century, the city kept testimonys of this long history and successive civilizations which marked it: Roman vestiges, majestic cathedral, cloister and ramparts medieval.

Discover the town of vernet les bains  Vernet-the-baths is a “station - tourist, climatic and thermal village” of medium mountains (650m), located at the center of the department of the Eastern Pyrenees. It is blottie with the foot of the Solid mass of Canigou - the crowned mountain of the Catalans, which culminates with 2785 meters, in a small sheltered valley of the winds, and profits from a strong sunning (300 days per annum, on average). It is a thermal spa calms and resting, which profits from sulfurous water of excellent quality and a Hydropathic establishment equipped well to treat the affections of the respiratory tracts and the rheumatology.