caves in Villefranche de Conflent offer the visitor a magical and spectactular geological show, in the two caves.
The Préhisto
Cave will take you back in time to the age of dinosaurs.
Grottes Grandes Canalettes
2, rue St-Jacques
66500 VILLEFRANCHE DE CONFLENT
Tél : 0033 (0) 4 68 96 23 11 Fax : 0033 (0) 4 68 80 76 84
E-Mail : contact@grotte-grandes-canalettes.com
Site : www.grotte-grandes-canalettes.com
Heritage protected by UNESCO the train leaves the station of Villefranche de Conflent to service more than 20 small villages in the mountains till it reaches the terminus at the international station La Tour de Carol.
www.cr-languedocroussillon.fr
www.ter-sncf.com/languedoc
Le Parc Animalier de Casteil, (zoo)
Casteil situated at the foot of the Mount Canigou will lead you to discover the animals in the park on a 3 km discovery trail.Parc Animalier de Casteil
66820 CASTEIL
Tél :0033 (0) 4 68 05 67 54
Fax :0033 (0) 4 68 05 76 44
Site :http://www.zoodecasteil.com/
Le Musée du Patrimoine Minier,
Le Musée du patrimoine Minier ( Iron Mine Museum) at Escaro will help you to understand the daily life and work of the miners.
Tél : 0033 (0) 4 68 97 15 34 ou 0033 (0) 6 18 81 50 33
Ria,
birthplace of Catalonia, is dominated by the ruins of its castle the Castel D’Arria.
Le Barrage de Vinça (dam), masterpiece of technology, holds back 24 million cubic metres of the water from the river Têt.
Information web site: www.ville-vinca.fr
Driving along the departmental road which links Sournia to Prades you will have the possibility of first seeing the superb dolmen Font de L’Arca, whose covering slab is adorned with many cupules. A little further along the road stands a strange megalith, Roc Cornut, whose unexpected silhouette rises above other granite blocks. Then you will reach Cayenne where there is another well preserved dolmen. However the famous Peira Dreta is not a menhir, but an quirk of nature.
photos dolmens .... 