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 ...

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 ...

Massane Tower

The Massane Tower is an ancient signal tower located in the Albères Mountains of Southern France, west of the Mediterranean commune of Argeles-sur-Mer. The kings of Majorca built a network of watchtowers in the thirteen-century as an early warning defense ...

Notre Dame des Anges

Situated on the port d’Amont of Collioure, the church of Notre Dame des Anges (Our Lady of the Angels) expresses the beauty and richness of history in this coastal French village on the southern Mediterranean. The village of Collioure has ...

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 ...

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 ...