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 ...

Maillol Museum

The Maillol Museum is located in the artist's farmhouse two miles west of Banyuls-sur-Mer. Aristide Maillol is a renowned French Catalan artist who became one of most important sculptors of the 20th century. The subject of a majority of his ...

Obelisk of Port Vendres

The Port Vendres Obelisk

The obelisk erected in 1783 in the center square of Port Vendres commemorates the accomplishments of King Louis XVI. Port Vendres is a deepwater seaport on the southwestern coast of the French Mediterranean. In the 1770's, ...

Fort Saint Elme

Fort Saint Elme sits perched on a high hill between coastal villages Port Vendres and Collioure on the Mediterranean in southern France. Initially built in the ninth century as a signal tower to warn the castle in Collioure from Arab ...

National Natural Reserve of the Massane Forest

Massane Forest National Preserve

The National Nature Reserve of the Massane Forest situated in the Argelès-sur-Mer territory of Southern France is part primeval and restored forest. Located on 830 acres of the Albères Mountains north of Catalonia, between France and ...

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 ...

Mount Melleray Abbey

Mount Melleray Abbey, found outside Cappoquin, County Waterford, was the first monastery founded in Ireland following the Reformation. When the French government forced out all foreign monks at the Cistercian monastery of Mellery in Brittany, France, a group of Irish ...

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 ...

Stradbally Medieval Church

The local Church of Ireland church in Stradbally, County Waterford, houses the ruins of a large, medieval house of worship. It contains a fortified presbytery, which is believed to have been constructed in the 1200s for protection during the disputes ...