Location: Perpignan in France
Nearest Airport:
Perpignan at 5
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Nearest Train:
Perpignan at 1
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Nearest Motorway:
Perpignan at 5
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Nearest Beach:
beach at 10.0
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Car: recommended
Once capital of the Kingdom of Majorca, and in turn belonging to Aragon, France, Spain and France again, Perpiny's capital of French Catalunya or Rousillon, and it flaunts its red and yellow Catalan colours to proclaim its cultural proximity to Barcelona, which has real proximity too, being only 187 kms down the autoroute. Perpignan is close to both Mediterranean and Pyrenees and is a great base to explore either. The Pyrenees plunge into the Mediterranean and a flat sandy coast meets the Spanish border in a rocky jumble of pretty bays. So you find beach resorts on the coast, like Le Bacar Canet-en-Rousillon and Argelsur-Mer as well as old harbours like Colliour, Porte-Vendres, Banyuls-sur-Mer and Cerb. Inland the department offers fruit trees and spa towns as it rises through ever more spectacular gorges into the mountains. Following the Tet valley up you find the medieval village of Castlnou, the famous monastery of St.Michel-de-Cuxa and the great fortress of Villefranche.