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The site of Tautavel Cave (also called Caune de l'Arago) is an ancient karst cave in the Tautavel valley of France with over 35 feet of deposits containing over 40 very old stratified occupations, dated between 450,000 and 100,000 years before the present.
Stone tools and faunal remains have been found in abundance.
The oldest layers include several bone and bone fragments of several individuals of the so-called Tautavel Man, called Homo erectus tautavelensis.
Archaeologist Henry de Lumley of the Institut de Paléontologie Humaine has been excavating the cave since 1964 and continues research today....
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The Arago cave is one of the largest karstic caves in the southern Corbières region.
The cave is located high up, overlooking the Tautavel Valley, and offering occupants an unparalleled view of the surrounding countryside.
This observation post was ideal for prehistoric hunters, who could watch the movement of game from on high.
In addition, the Verdouble River, flowing at the foot of the cliff, was a watering place where most animals came to drink - thus providing clear advantage to the hunters of Tautavel.
Near the former entrance to the cave, a path provided easy access to another hunting domain; the vast plateau, located above the cave.
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Opening Musée de Préhistoire de Tautavel:
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02 january to 10 july - From 10:00 to 12.30 and from 14:00 to 18.00
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11 july to 21 august - From 10:00 to 19.00
- 22 august to 31 december - From 10:00 to 12.30 and from 14:00 to 18.00
- Closed day(s): 24 - 25 - 31 december
and 01 - 11 january
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* Coach parking
* Multi Languages
* Individual guided tours |
* Shop
* Disabled reception
* Unguided individual visits
* Group guided tours |
Gorges de Gouleyrous
Cucugnan village, one of the most picturesque
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Muscat de Rivesaltes is an appellation for the historic vins doux naturels from a relatively large area of Roussillon, in southern France, covering a total of 99 communes, and the majority of the Pyrenees-Orientales administrative departement. It is the largest single sweet wine appellation in France. Muscat de Rivesaltes wines are made predominantly from Muscat Blanc a Petit Grains and Muscat d'Alexandrie in varying ratios, according to the style desired by the individual producer. Muscat Blanc a Petits Grains is used to bring aromas of exotic and citrus fruits while Muscat d'Alexandrie brings a deeper bouquet of white flowers and ripe stone fruit. Collectively the wines show aromas of peach, lemon, mango and occasionally fresher, herbaceous notes like mint. These aromas all change with ageing, (which take place mostly in the bottle to preserve the fresher aromas) and the wines take on aromas of honey and baked stone fruits...
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The cornerstone of organic farming is the soil. Maintaining a healthy, biologically active soil is the main objective for an organic farmer. In the vineyard it means cultivating the soil and planting cover crops, instead of applying herbicides. It means using natural fertilizers, such as composted animal manure, versus chemical fertilizers. Organic growers use no synthetic growth-regulators (such as Alar). As for not using pesticides, the organic alternative is to encourage natural predators of insect pests instead of using poisonous insecticides. Organic farmers promote "biodiversity" and allow plants other than vines to grow in and around the vineyard. Biodiversity helps regulate the vineyard soil by attracting beneficial insects, spiders and predatory mites, as well as provide shelter and food (pollen, nectar and other bugs), and replaces the need for chemical pesticides or insecticides. What cannot be fully controlled through biodiversity can still be managed organically, through the use of naturally occurring plant or mineral extracts, which leave no residues in the soil. In wet climates the main difficulty is raised by the use of copper sulfate against mildew, which leaves over time levels of copper in the soil that need to be monitored....
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Musée de
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Avenue Léon Jean Grégory
66720 TAUTAVEL |
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Phone +33 4.68.29.07.76
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Welcome to Relais d´Aguilar, camping and rental of chalets and cottages in Tuchan. Nestled in the heart of the Corbières Sauvages, in a natural setting of 2 hectares planted with Eucalyptus, mimosas and hundred-year-old olive trees, you will spend a peaceful stay, far from noise and bustle. You can enjoy the swimming pool, you have 2 tennis courts and a city stadium. You can come and taste Philippe's delicious dishes as well as James' essential pizzas and enjoy the panoramic view of Château d'Aguilar and the Vingrau cliffs. Musical evenings in July-August once a week. We offer overnight or weekly stays for couples, families or groups (up to 70 people) in self-catering, half-board or full-board.
The Cathar castles (Aguilar, Quéribus, Peyrepetuse ...), the gorges of Galamus, the delightful village of Cucugnan, ... you will appreciate the tasting of wines from our region including Fitou. You will discover fabulous river corners...
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Sandwiched between two walls of folded Cretaceous limestone in the Pyrenees, Corbieres and Capron, the land of mountains Duilhac only. As its inhabitants were given the nickname "Skip-rock" (rock-jumping). Clinging to the rocky heights of the High Corbières, at an altitude of 800 metres. Peyrepertuse emerges from the midst of the Mediterranean scrubland known as the "garrigue" and overlooks the small village of Duilhac-sous-Peyrepertuse. This huge fortress covers the same area as the citadel of Carcassonne. Each year the largest medieval festival in the South of France takes place here when many troupes perform in the castle and in a reconstructed medieval village...
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“Le Maurynate”, which was entirely renovated in 2009, will welcome you and will help you to organize your stay taking into account your priorities.
We always take the time to give you tips and we will be delighted to map out your trips and make sure they’re adapted to your own wishes. Our middle-sized camp-site where we take the time to look after our clients, is situated at the entrance of the village of Maury and comprises of 26 fields separated by hedgerows and shielded from the sun by ancient olive trees.
You’re privacy will be respected and you’ll be comfortably installed on pitches of between 70 and 140 square meters, 24 of which are connected to the mains...
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Ille-sur-Têt -
Les Orgues |
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Discover, in the sight of Canigou, this unique landscape
with colored reliefs that water has carved in clay and sand torn from the
Pyrenean massifs and deposited in the valley of the Tet last 5 million years.
The combination of elements, earth, water, wind and solar fire gave birth to a
symphony of shapes and colors that speak to the imagination. Real call to
escape, this walk takes you through the corridors of time and by-roads lined
with scrub. Enjoy over the steps fauna and flora of this secret garden. The site
of the organ is a jewel embedded mineral green, an amphitheater forgotten that
nature has fashioned tribute to the most fabulous story ever told, this amazing
adventure called life. Bear the guidebook 'The interpretive trail', you are
worried about the unusual history of this place...
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The Cathar castle Queribus in the south of France (located in the heart of the Corbieres) still stands today as an impressive memorial to the Albigensian crusade of the thirteenth-century. It was only in 1255 that this mountain top fortress fell to French Catholic knights. Queribus held out an additional eleven years beyond the more widely known Cathar castle at Montsegur, which gave Queribus the distinction of being the last of the Cathar castles. As a result, in many ways the capture of Queribus represents the end of the organized Cathar movement and is sometimes referred to as "the last bastion." Geographically, the castle is high and isolated.The exhausting hike up the mountain, a few hundred steep meters, that is necessary to reach the castle is rewarded by the stunniing military architecture of Queribus. The gothic style hall and its polygonal keep are especially worth seeing...
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Downstream Padern, the cash is Verdouble again to cross a link of limestone from the mountain of Tauch, thus creating a site with magnificent gorges. Clinging to a rock, the castle ruins above the village. This castle is monitoring the Verdouble valleys and Torgan. In 899, King Charles the Simple Padern gives to the Abbey of Lagrasse. The medieval castle, there is nothing left. Yet Padern housed Occitan knights in rebellion to the King of France. Thus, Chabert and William Barbaira Peyrepertuse found refuge when they fled. The building was an element of protection and surveillance over the mesh in this terrotoire border. The current building is a building of the seventeenth century made by the lord Peter de Vic making the acquisition at this time. Access is easy by a small path that winds to the south...
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