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Equipements de loisirs
LE TRAIN JAUNE
A true symbol of the region, with its blood and gold colors, the TER Train Jaune has traveled all over the year for nearly 100 years ... The train trip, especially in the open cars, really looks like a panoramic film, punctuated by the swaying of cars: halfway up the steep slopes of the Tet valley, the train goes along the void and smoothly crosses large bucolic spaces, at the foot of the Canigou massifs, the Cambre d'Aze , Carlit and Puigmal, with in the distance the silhouette of the Serra del Cadi ... A real escapade in the Catalan Pyrenees!
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Patrimoine culturel
FORT LAGARDE
Designed to guard the Franco-Spanish border, Fort Lagarde overlooks the fortified town of Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste. At the heart of the monument, a medieval signal tower dominates the keep, which was reinforced by Vauban in 1686. A military escape route links the fort to the town, creating a remarkable architectural ensemble.
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Patrimoine culturel
FORT LIBERIA DE VILLEFRANCHE-DE-CONFLENT
Perched above the town, this Fort dominates the town and was built by Vauban circa 1680 and reinforced by Napoleon III between 1850 and 1856. Visit: the rampart walk, counterscarp gallery, Chapel, bastions, bread oven, prison, the Fort’s museum that is connected to Villefranche-de-Conflent’s medieval city by a staircase that has 799 steps. It can be accessed on foot via an archaeological trail (20 min walk). There is a walkway for the most courageous or by 4 x 4. The Fort Liberia also houses an exhibition by the Scottish artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
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Patrimoine culturel
FORTERESSE DE SALSES
Built by the Spanish at the end of the 15th century, the fortress was there to guard and block the border with France in the North of Spain.
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Patrimoine culturel
ABBAYE DE SAINT MICHEL DE CUXA
Located in a valley in the heart of Romanesque Conflent and at the foot of Canigou, the Abbey of Saint-Michel is an exceptional architectural ensemble that includes a large 10th Century pre-Romanesque church, a Romanesque-Lombard steeple, a marvelous 11th Century crypt and remains of a 12th century Romanesque cloister which is the first and largest one that is carved in Catalonia. Home to Benedictine monks since 878. Place of faith, culture and peace.
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Patrimoine culturel
MUSEE DE PREHISTOIRE DE TAUTAVEL
The discovery of a 450,000 years old skull of a young adult Homo Erectus within the Caune Arago, has projected the village of Tautavel in the great adventure of human history. Tools, animals and human fossils, rocks found helped reconstruct their lifestyle. The Tautavel museum traces attractively through the most modern museum techniques a little-known period of prehistory, Paleolithic Age.
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Patrimoine culturel
CHATEAU MUSEE DE BELESTA
The Castle-Museum is dedicated to recent prehistory. These archaeological treasures (unique in Europe) shows daily activities of Neolithic man 6000 years ago. These archeological discoveries were done in the Belesta Cave (ornaments, tools, weapons, pots including 30 pieces intacts). In 2017, a new space is created and dedicated to Charles Rennie Mackintosh, scotish architect and painter that used to live near Belesta.
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Patrimoine culturel
REMPARTS DE VILLEFRANCHE DE CONFLENT
Founded in 1092 by Count Guillaume Raymond of Cerdanya, in a strategic Tet Valley barrier at the foot of Canigou, Villefranche de Conflent has kept its fortified enclosure intact, it was built from the 11th until the 19th century. A tour of the interior will enable one to appreciate the successive defensive systems' ingenuity. The city's strategic interest had already been recognized in the Middle Ages and was reinforced after the Pyrenees' Treaty (1659), Louis XIV instructed Vauban to complete Villefranche's defenses making it a stronghold.
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Patrimoine culturel
MAISON DU PATRIMOINE ET DE LA MEMOIRE ANDRE ABET
The "André Abet" House of Heritage and Memory in Saint Laurent de Cerdans: The memory of a know-how: espadrilles and Catalan weaving This place of collective memory is located within the walls of the "Union Sandalière", the former cooperative production factory (1923) of the Travailleurs Syndiqués, and today houses the reconstruction of an espadrille and weaving factory. You will also discover La Retirada, the memory of the exodus of Spanish Republicans who were welcomed in Saint Laurent de Cerdans in January and February 1939. 70,000 refugees passed through Saint Laurent, 5,000 of whom were accommodated on site, while the wounded and sick were housed on the 2nd floor of this building.
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Patrimoine culturel
LA MANUFACTURE DU GRENAT
The garnet manufacture in Prades has won many honors : 2003 craft prize, Mercure d'Or 2008, Living heritage Company, Quality tourism, South of France, French Origin Guaranteed. The town is the only center for such excellence in France and is listed in the Patrimoine Vivant. All those involved in making emblematic Catalan jewellery, from the lapidary who carves stone, to the jewellers who shape jewels and crimp garnets are represented. The guided tour starts at the Ecomuseum (historic tooling) and then proceeds to the manufacturing workshops to the restored mine (jewel history) and then ends in a retail center where works are exposed and sold.
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Patrimoine culturel
CREATION CATALANE
It was in the 19th century, in St Laurent de Cerdans, that the amazing story of the espadrille was born, the story of an ancestral craft that became a flourishing industry that supported an entire valley for almost a hundred years. Today, we make Catalan espadrilles known as "Vigatanes" (pronounced "bigatanes"). We've set up our workshop in an old espadrille factory that we've renovated and brought up to standard. We work mainly with the harmonious, contemporary colours of "Toiles du Soleil", bringing a modern touch to our creations while preserving the ancestral manufacturing process. The shop adjoining our workshop allows visitors to see the production process in real time.