Pyrenees Guide

Mountains and high mountains with their ski resorts, but also canoe and kayak, rambling, fishing, canyoning, horseriding and mountainbike await you in these high region. The Cerdagne has an exceptional climate with an average of 2.800 hours of sunshine per year. Its dry, healthy air is the reason why there are some specialised establishments for respiratory ailments.

Cerdagne, that is magnificent landscapes, an animal park (Les Angles), hot-water springs (St Thomas les bains), the solar oven of Odeillo, and a treasury of well-preserved Roman art which you will discover in small churches that shelter beautiful retables. The beauty of the Cerdagne was the reason for the inintiative to run the "Little Yellow Train". this train enables visitors to see the countryside from the Conflent to the extremity of the Cerdagne.

Eyne - Eyne is a beautiful traditional village of Cerdagne. The ski resort of Eyne 2600 is situated in the Cerdagne area of the Pyrenees Orientales department in the Pyrenees Orientales region. It is part of the Neiges Catalanes ski domain. The lift served area extends from 1650 metres to 2400 metres. ...

Font Romeu - In the middle of the plain of Cerdagne nine kilometres over the Mountain-Louis is located the famous health and sports resort (built in 1920) called Font-Romeu. With its 3.200 permanent inhabitants, Font Romeu remains the largest town in Cerdagne. The name results from the Gallicising of the ...

Llo - Llo is an interesting small village, unfortunately nearly unknown. It is situated in the region called Cerdagne, near Eyne on the road to Saillagouse, at the beginning of the gorges of Segre. This township hung hills is worth to be seen. Don't miss to look at the panorama of the rocky peak where ...

Palau de Cerdagne - During the very first years of the 19th century, for their brand new church, the parishioners of Palau de Cerdagne had the excellent idea of recovering the works of art which decorated the old Romanesque church left abandoned. The mystery of the red cassock: Cardinal or canon, kneeling, hands ...

La Llagonne - La Llagonne: A granite mound dominates the high plain of the Capcir. This dip or hollow was once a marsh area of lagoons, hence the village's name. At the very top of this peak a Romanesque church displays the great course of large stones of its walls, typical of the end of the 12th century in the ...

Saillagouse - Village at the crossroads to the ski resorts, Spain and Andorra. Saillagouse is renown for its archaeological centre. Visit in the hamlet of Sainte Leocadie, the Romanesque church with its fine ...

Bouillouses Lake - This is one of the most beautiful lakes in the area at an altitude of 2.700 metres where a barrage was built at the turn of the century (an important water reserve: 16 million m3). A pathway leads to the summit of the Carlit peak at an altitude of 2.921 ...

Odeillo - Odeillo's most impressive attraction is a screen composed of thousands of mirrors. This area, in the Eastern Pyrenees, rises to the ski area of Fort Romeu and decends gently away to the Spanish ...

Bourg Madame - This is the the frontier village situated at the lowest point of the French Cerdagne, very near the Spanish border. Puigcerda (Catalunya Pyrenees) is the neighbouring village and many visitors come for its shops. Visit the Romanesque church, with its polychrome Madonna and Child (13th century) and ...

Osseja - Located in the South of the French Pyrenees, at 1250 m of height, Osseja is on the fringe of the high tray of the Cerdagne, 150 km from Barcelona, 100 km of Perpignan and 30 km from Andorra. At present Osseja is second village of French Cerdagne in population. Osseja is well known how because its ...