National Cemetery/British Barracks

The Spanish first constructed this building along the edge of the walled city for use as Franciscan monastery during 1577. Following the end of the Seven Years War in 1763, the British occupied St. Augustine converting the building for use ...

John McMahon Environmental Education Center

Now owned and operated by the City of Crestview, the Environmental Center was originally conceived and started by former Okaloosa County Forester John McMahon in 1979. The center offers a park-like setting with picnic area and two ornamental fish ponds ...

Port of Collioure

The commune of Collioure is a small seaside Catalan village in southern France on the Vermeil Coast of the Mediterranean, north of the Spanish border and the Pyrenees. Occupied since prehistoric times, early records show the Visigoths lived on this ...

Catalan Fishermen of Banyuls-sur-Mer

The Catalan Fishing Village of Banyuls-sur-Mer

Banyuls-sur-Mer is a seaside village in the most southern corner of France located in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon of the Eastern Pyrenees. The village lays nestled between foothills, the steeps slopes covered with vast ...

Saint Peter Chapel

The Saint Peter Chapel located on the harbor seawall of Villefranche-sur-Mer is a fourteenth century Romanesque chapel dedicated to Saint Peter, as the patron saint of fishermen. The chapel fell into disuse in the eighteenth century and became a storage ...

Col de Banyuls

Col de Banyuls

The Col de Banyuls is a mountain pass in the foothills of the Eastern Pyrenees that is also an historic border crossing between France and Spain. The ascent is difficult, but the shortest route to the pass ...

Royal Castle of Collioure

The royal castle of Collioure is an immense historic stone fortress with roots in antiquity. The castle is located in Collioure, a traditional Catalan fishing village on the Mediterranean coast of Southern France. The castle evolved over a millennium, combining ...

Cappoquin House and Gardens

Cappoquin House, above the centre of the town, is an 18th Century Georgian mansion, built on the site of an old FitzGerald castle. The house and gardens enjoy magnificent views over the River Blackwater. The Keane family home has been ...

Ardmore Round Tower And Cathedral

On a return trip to Wales in the 5th century, St Declan came across the village of Ardmore and founded a monastery there. Today, a number of sites remain from his monastic city, located just 15km from Youghal in County ...

Ballynamona Court Cairn

Ballynamona Court Cairn in County Waterford is the only court cairn in the southeast.

The name comes from the fact that this type of tomb usually has a courtyard area found at the entrance to the chambers. Of the court -originally ...