Things to do in Perpignan
Around Perpignan, Notrebellefrance lists 18 tourist sites within 25 km, including 7 castles, 2 zoos and wildlife parks, 2 water parks and 2 villages. Not to be missed: Les Orgues d'Ille sur Têt, Collioure and Canyoning Park.
Les Orgues d'Ille sur Têt
"Les Orgues" are strange rock formations eroded by time and shaped like chimneys.
Collioure
A little Catalan port of colourful houses nestled in a cove of the Vermilion Coast, immortalised by Matisse and the Fauvist painters in the early twentieth century.
Canyoning Park
Extreme thrills for climbing and sliding fans: jumps of 3 to 7 m, slides, abseiling under waterfalls, climbing nets, rope ladders, a 100 m zip line ending in the water. Equipment provided on site.
Palais des rois de Majorque
Château de Canet-en-Roussillon
Aquarium de Canet-en-Roussillon
Le Tropique du Papillon
Aqualand Saint Cyprien
Forteresse de Salses
At Salses, a small village in northern Roussillon, stands the finest example of so-called "transitional" military architecture.
La Vallee des Tortues
Musée de Tautavel, Centre Européen
Inaugurated in 1992, the new Tautavel Museum, European Centre of Prehistory, is a formidable tool for popularising the sciences related to archaeology and particularly to prehistory over the periods of the Mediterranean Quaternary.
Castelnou
In the Roussillon plain, south-west of Perpignan, this old fortified village nestles at the foot of a former feudal castle remodelled in the last century.
Château de Castelnou
Aqualand Port Leucate
Château d'Ultrère
Château royal de Collioure
A superb citadel whose foundations plunge into the sea, the château de Collioure was built on the remains of Roman constructions, later transformed in Visigothic times and first cited in 673.
Château d'Aguilar
The ruins of Aguilar castle crown a rocky peak. The oldest part is the polygonal upper enclosure, pointed on the attack side (twelfth century).
