Discovert tourist sites in the pyrénées orientales department

Visit the cities historical and cultural but also benefit from a great number of landscape in the department of the eastern pyrenees…

Discover the town of perpignan  Old vestiges or treasures of the heart of city, Perpignan allures at the same time by the traces of its past and the charm of its lanes. In love ones with history will discover with rapture the Palate of Kings de Majorque (the most important monument of the city), the Cabin of Sea (seat of the consulate of Sea), the Palate of the Delegation, the Town hall in the middle which exhibe proudly “the Mediterranean” chief of work of Maillol… Without forgetting Castillet, emblem of Perpignan (built at the end of XIVème century) which was castle in turn, carries city and prison. But they is also while trying to lose itself in the narrow lanes fixed between walls of bricks and “Cayrous”, by pushing the doors of the courses to penetrate in the patios and by delaying you in the places of life and meeting again which are the places that you will discover the major heart of Perpignan.

Discover the town of mont-louis  Aprés the signature of the treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, and to make safe the news frontiére with Spain, Mount-Louis is created of all piéces between 1679 and 1681, within Vauban architect of Louis XIV. The original plan envisaged 4 zones, citadel, city high, low city and fears. Dice its origin the city was a military fortified town, of aillor mainly built by the soldiers.

Visit the town of canet en roussillon  Initiation with the adventure, incentive with idleness or invitation with the cultural discovery, you will be filled by the extraordinary diversity of Canet in Roussillon. Mediterranean balneal city with the foot of the Pyrenees, 12km of Perpignan and in full heart of the triangle Montpellier/Toulouse/Barcelona, Canet invites you to discover his inheritance, its beaches protected “blue house from Europe” and to radiate in an extraordinarily rich area.

Visit the town of prades  Peaceful Prades village, raised by the proximity of the legendary Canigou Mount, abounds in innumerable small treasures. Dare to cross the Door of Conflent to their discovery

Visit the town of ille sur tet  This country, located on the river of the Small fireclay cup, in the plain of Roussillon, is bathed and fertilized by running waters. They determined its agricultural vocation and are its ornament; they made of it a place of predilection for the fruit-bearing cultures. When the sums of money bragged of the winter made place with the first emanations of spring, Ille, seen left bank of the Small fireclay cup, appears, in the splendid decoration that the imposing mass and the snow-covered summits of Canigou constitute, like a vision of paradise. Cherry trees, apricot trees, and especially pêchers, multiplied like the trees of a forest, open out in an atmosphere of freshness their white or pink flowers, bearing in their corollas the promise of the tastiest fruits. Their feet, of opulent market gardenings let guess the richness of the ground and the deaf person work by whom the ground nourishes them. With the bottom of the terrace which is spread out over right bank of the river, the eyes test a new rapture with the sight of the many fountains which spout out at this place and spread around their water of a perfect limpidity and an incomparable freshness. The village itself is grouped on this terrace. The tiled roofs red appear above the ramparts which during long years protected the city, and, dominating of its monumental form the mass of the houses, the church draws up its imposing architecture and its square bell-tower in the bright luminosity of the sky.