A exceptionnel culturel inheritance

During your stay, your visits reveal the great diversity of the Catalan country, enriched during the history, by the artistic and cultural influences of many civilizations.

Three museums propose to go up at the origins of the Mediterranean cultures by presenting the evolution of the man and nature, of Palaeolithic to the Neolithic era.

The Pyrenees Orientals gave rise to remarkable creations of the Western Romanesque art. Benedictines abbeys, churches and priories tell the birth of the first Romanesque art.

At the XVII century Catalonia accommodate the Baroque art from Italy. Each village shelters many works of art of this golden Century.

Medieval castles, urban enclosures, royal fortifications testify to a zone of border between States since the Middle Age.

The landscapes present an infinite pallet of diversity, from the Mediterranean to the Pyrenees. Since centuries, the humans work his environment and exploit his natural resources. A fragile inheritance to be persevered. This territory is also the cradle of renewable and solar energies.
(Texts from Guide of the Catalan “Terre Catalane” - Cultural Network)

the Cultural Network “Terre Catalane”

41 Sites of Inheritance:

the Cultural Network “Terre Catalane” federates many cultural, scientific or natural sites of Catalan identity, from the prehistory to the XXI° century.
A "PASS" is offered to you during your stay which allows you dice your second visit with one of the sites of inheritance to profit from a good reduction.

Tourism, started from the hotel

A one day of discovering:
- discovered the Prades valley with the tourist Yellow Train: the railroad of the Yellow Train, long 63 km, climb up the most highest in France: to connect Villefranche-of-Conflent to Bolquère the train rises to 1200 m and make faces to a declivity of about 6%. The train circulates at a mean velocity of 30 km/h but can push points to 55 km/h.
No less than 600 structures whose 19 tunnels mark out the railway to allow the train facing the difficulties of a accidentally relief. Le “Canari" plays frog-jump with the Têt river, climbs, clings valiantly to narrow cornices to finish its race, undulating towards the blue horizons of Cerdagne. Schedules, documentation and information on the spot in the hotel.

- Discovering the valley of Fenouillèdes: with the tourist Train of Fenouillèdes: “Picasso” The tourist railroad of the valley of “Agly” and the valley of “Aude”. From Rivesaltes in the Eastern Pyrenees to Axat in the Aude valley, our train uses a railway inherited of the Company of the South which connected Carcassonne at Rivesaltes, via Quillan. When you go climb up in the "Picasso", it is a long the rail that you will discover 60 km of ways, strewn with tunnels, viaducts and other structures. Thanks to many panoramic sights, you will be able to admire all the richness of the landscapes of these two valleys like a much diversified architectural heritage. Information near the responsible team. Many activities accessible starting from the train. Charge free for bicycles.

- Contact with the spirits of Cathar: the castle of PEYREPERTUS and the castle of QUERIBUS.
- Our inheritance: churches, vaults, cloisters and Romance abbeys.
- Discovering Fauna and Flora of our department with a guide specialist on the matter....
- Discovered our prehistoric past: museums of "the first European human of Tautavel" and the museum of prehistory of Belesta.
- Also present: the museum of modern art of Céret and various other museums.
- shopping: memories of holidays to prolong the pleasure: potteries, minerals and fossils, craft industry of art, fabrics, wrought iron, produced local gastronomy: pork-butcheries, cheeses, honeys and jams, fruits and delicacies.
- Visit with a goat cheese farm: breeding goats and manufacture of cheeses + to taste the goat cheese
- Industrial tourism: "the saline ones of the island St Martin in Gruissan" (Aude). The guided tour of saline lasts 1h30 on a pedestrian course of approximately 2 km during which the comments on the various phases of production alternate with botanical information and ornithological observations.