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Canet-en-Roussillon (French pronunciation: [kane ɑ̃ ʁusijɔ̃]; Catalan: Canet de Rosselló, [kəˈnɛt ˈde rusəˈʎo]; Occitan: Canet de Rosselhon, [kaˈnet de ruseˈʎu]) is a commune and town in the French department of the Pyrénées-Orientales, administrative region of Occitania.
Gavarnie (French pronunciation:; Occitan: Gavarnia) is a former commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, Southwestern France. [2] On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Gavarnie-Gèdre. [3]
It is the only important town, and only the towns of Canet-en-Roussillon, Saint-Estève, Saint-Cyprien, Argelès-sur-Mer, Cabestany and Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque exceed 10,000 inhabitants. Other important towns are Rivesaltes , Bompas , Pia , Thuir , Céret , Elne , Le Soler , Prades and Toulouges , each with between 6,500 and 10,000 ...
Hautes-Pyrénées (French pronunciation: [ot piʁene] ⓘ; Gascon/Occitan: Nauts Pirenèus / Hauts Pirenèus ['awts piɾeˈnɛʊs]; Spanish: Altos Pirineos; Catalan: Alts Pirineus ['alts piɾiˈneʊs]; ) is a department in the region of Occitania, southwestern France.
Pyrénées National Park (French: Parc national des Pyrénées) is a French national park located within the departments of Hautes-Pyrénées and Pyrénées-Atlantiques. [1] [2] The park is located along the border of France and Spain along the Pyrenees Mountains, with a scenic landscape offering a variety of outdoor activities including hiking, skiing, mountain climbing and observing wildlife.
The Pyrenees mountain range crosses the department from east to west from the Col d'Aubisque to the mouth of the Bidasoa at Hendaye. The border with Spain follows the Pyrenean chain. The highest point is at the Pic Palas (commune of Laruns), in the Balaïtous massif, on the Franco-Spanish border, at 2,974 meters.
The name of the town in Catalan is Ceret. [4]Former known names of Céret are, in order of appearance, vicus Sirisidum in 814, vico Cereto in 866, villa Cerseto in 915, vigo Ceresido in 930, also Cered and Ceriteto in the 10th century, Ceret, Cericeto in the 11th and 12th centuries, Cirset around 1070, Cersed (one of the most common forms) in 1130 and Cerset in 1138, and from the 13th to 15th ...
For all these reasons, Midi-Pyrénées is often dubbed "Toulouse and the Midi-Pyrenean desert", in reference to the famous phrase "Paris and the French desert" coined by the French geographer Jean-François Gravier in 1947, when it was felt that the ever-expanding urban area of Paris, so much larger than any other city in France, would soon ...