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Spring 2010 - in Languedoc-Roussillon
Together with Christophe, our local
guide, we were driving the
coastal road,
Route des Vignes,
from Argelès-sur-Mer. The
landscape here changes from
flat lowlands with
golden sandy beaches along the
coastline of
the Golfe du
Lion, to an
increasingly hilly terrain where
the Pyrenees meet
the Mediterranean Sea,
creating a
coastline with craggy,
rocky beaches and
small, idyllic coves
and bays. We visited several of the beautiful towns of Roussillon, Port-Vendres, Banyuls-sur-mer, Céret, Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines, Argeles-sur-Mer and others. All were worth a visit - but deep down we knew all along that we had already found our city: Collioure. |
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Collioure is located in the region of Occitanie in southern
France, about 30 km south of Perpignan and about 35 km from the Spanish
border, counted by road via Le Boulou. The region Occitanie was
previously two admin. regions, Languedoc-Roussillon and
Midi-Pyrénées. Region capital is Toulouse)
The name Collioure is pronounced in French: kåljure and in Catalan:
cotlliure, and the city is a municipality with about 3000 inhabitants,
in the department Pyrenees-Orientales.
The picture: View towards the north, Argelès-sur-Mer and the coastline of the Golfe du Lion
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History
Kingdom of Majorca (Mallorca) was
established by James I of Aragon ("The Conqueror") who reigned as king
of Aragon from 1213 to 1276.
By the Pyrenees Treaty of 1659 between France and Spain the northern
Catalonia was geographically separated and given to France, and became
the province of Roussillon. Later the province was included in the
French department Pyrénées-Orientales with Perpignan (Perpinya) as
administrative center.
From the year 981 the
princes of Roussillon began
to build
a fortress
in Collioure, what
today is
Le Château Royal in
the middle of the
town. In
the twelfth century Temple knights stayed here, and
in the period 1276 to 1344 the
castle was used
as a summer residence
for the kings of Mallorca.
Grand Priory of Terra Nordica http://www.mocterranordica.org The MOC Charitable Foundation http://www.mocfoundation.org Real Aula Mallorquesa http://realaula.homestead.com Royal Aragonese College of Arms http://royalaragonese.homestead.com History of Roussillon http://histoireduroussillon.free.fr/Villages/Histoire/Collioure.php
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Link to Collioure Office de Tourisme Link: Utsnitt av kart over Collioure
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