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Museums
Musée du Quercorb, Puivert
Dinosaur Museum, Esperaza
Hat Museum, Esperaza
Honey Museum, Esperaza
Musée Petiet, Limoux
Musee des Automates, Limoux
Prehistoric Museum, Tarascon
Tautavel Prehistoric Museum
Pays Donezan museum Usson
Carcassonne:
Museum of Fine Arts
Musée de l'Ecole, Imaginarium
Musée de la Chevalerie
Musée "Mémoires Moyen Age"
Catha-Rama
Perpignan:
Museum of Fine Art
Musée Casa Pairal
Musée Numismatique
M. Natural History
Musée Maillol, Banyuls
Modern Arts Museum, Ceret
M. Modern Arts, Collioure
M. Modern Arts, St. Cyprien
Sacred Arts Center, Ille-Sur-Tet
Pablo Casalls Museum, Prades
Musée Languedocien, Montpellier
The Fabre Museum, Montpellier
Musée de Lodève
Horreum, Narbonne
Musée Lapidaire, Narbonne
Maritime Museum, Grau Du Roi
Naive Arts Museum, Bages
Catharama, Minerve
Le Moulin, Villeneuve-Minervois
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Shopping
Rural France is not at its best when it comes to shopping. You need to go to a bigger city, e.g.:
Montpellier
Toulouse
Perpignan or
Carcassonne.
Some smaller towns have a few shops, like:
Limoux
Quillan
Font-Romeu
Ax-les-Termes...
France is at its best when it comes to markets. There is a market in the region almost every day in a town in the neighbourhood. Tips: Occitan markets are on Sunday morning in Esperaza and on Monday morning in Mirepoix. Limoux has a market on Friday morning. Quillan on Wednesday morning and Saturday morning.
There are several special markets throughout Summer, like the Thursday evening markets in Quillan or markets with a theme, like local produce and art.
The most wonderful antiques or rare items pop up in a brocante, either on a market or in a shop.
For brocantes, click here!
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Beaches
The beaches here in southern France are amazing. Not only does it go on for miles and miles, seemingly without an end.
There are some great sandy beaches, romantic small beaches, and beaches in the middle of town like on the beautiful Vermeille coast.
This strip is also called little Greece for its charm and climate. It has the most sunshine in the whole of France!
There are boat trips and many watersports but also places where you can rent comfortable chairs not far from a snack shop and public toilets, like in Collioure.
Best beaches:
Narbonne-Plage
Gruissan-Plage
Leucate-Plage
Torreilles-Plage
Ste-Marie-Plage
Canet-Plage
St-Cyprien-Plage
Argeles-Plage
Collioure (tip!)
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Abbeys/Monasteries
Galamus Rock Monastery
St. Hilaire
Villelonge
Lagrasse
Fontfroide
St. Martin de Canigou
St. Michel de Cuxa
Priory of Serrabone
St. Polycarpe
Alet-les-Bains
St. Papoul
Caunes-Minervois Abbey
St. Martin le Vieil
St. Guilhem le Désert
Elne
There are many wonderful churches and cathedrals throughout the area, most of the smaller churches are almost always closed. But the larger ones like in Narbonne, Carcassonne, Beziers, Elne and Perpignan are almost always open. Every church has its story.
The most interesting church is possibly the Mary Magdalene church in Rennes-le-Chateau, with its mysterious hints left there by one of her former priests, abbé Saunière (ca. 1900). The meaning of the hidden clues are being examined by many people all over the world and has inspired Dan Brown to write the Da Vinci Code.
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