Le Pays Catalan
An exceptional natural and cultural patrimony
Le Pays Catalan is a territory of an incredible wealth both by its natural and cultural patrimony.
The protected natural spaces are there very numerous, as well as the religious or military architectural monuments, the historic or artistic museums.
Finally, let us not forget that the other side of the border conceals treasures of the Catalan culture in Figueres or Barcelona
Protected natural spaces and incredible variety
In some dozens minutes of Saint-Cyprien, it is possible to go in Nature reserves caracterized by wide variety : submarine nature reserve of Banyuls, nature reserve of the Mas Larrieu in the seaside, the nature reserve of Massane with its fresh forest of beeches and farther the nature reserves of Conflent and Cerdagne.
The famous Canigou as for him is situated at the same moment in a classified site but also in the Regional Natural reserve of Catalan Pyrenees.
This territory extends from Villefranche de Conflent to the borders of Andorra and recovers an exclusively mountain space.
The outdoor activities are accessible to it to all the public: hiking in Bouillouses, fishing in the Lakes of Camporells, canyonning in Llech, parapente in Haute Cerdagne, observation of the fauna and flora in Conflent etc...
A cultural old patrimony as the humanity
Le Pays Catalan having been lived since the dawn of the humanity, it possesses very numerous vestiges or world-famous civil, military or religious monuments.
In Saint Michel de Cuixà, Saint-Martin du Canigou, in the Convent of Elne, in the Prieuré de Serrabonne etc. the Romanic art expresses itself in all its magnificence and attracts every year curious and specialists.
This desired territory also possesses very numerous medieval and modern sites: cities strengthened like Villefranche de Conflent and Mont-Louis, military castle of Fort Libéria, Fort Lagarde, Fort of Salses, Palace of Kings de Majorque in Perpignan, Royal Castle of Collioure, etc....
Your Hotel in Saint-Cyprien recommends:
- hiking in mountain and others outdoor activities : http://www.la-rando.com
- Fort Libéria : http://www.fort-liberia.com
- The mushoom shop : http://www.boutique-du-champignon.com
- outdoors activities : http://www.randonades.com
- Mountain office in Font-Romeu : http://www.ozone3-montagne.com