This is a comfortable jaunt around a valley to the south of Banyuls-sur-Mer. It involves gentle climb to Puig del Mas followed by a short but steep climb along the beginning of the ‘Chemin de Walter Benjamin’
Argelès to Banyuls-sur-Mer is a short but fabulous coastal drive on a crisp autumn day, offering panoramic views over the bay of Collioure, row after row of steep, terraced vines, and a sparkling Mediterranean ever present throughout the drive.
A walk to Port Vendres from Banyuls involving a 10 minute bus ride for 1Euro .
Fête des Vendanges – celebrate the wine harvest in Banyuls sur Mer with local product market, grape pressing, musical entertainment in the village streets, special ’vendanges ball’, blessing of the harvest…
What better way to keep cool this summer than snorkeling in the protected waters of the Réserve Marine Naturelle. The Réserve Marine Naturelle, opened in 1974, covers an area 6.5km long and 2km wide, amounting to 650 hectares of coastline between Banyuls-sur-Mer and Cerbère.
This walk starts and ends at Paulilles, south of Port Vendres – the town has recently claimed the beach for its own, but that does not change the unspoiled beauty of its pebble-dashed sands and crystal clear blue water, nestling beneath immaculately terraced vines.
La Vieille Cave Situated in the heart of Banyuls sur Mer, La Vieille Cave combines the best of French, Catalan and Italian cuisine. As the name suggests, this cosy, intimate restaurant is in fact an…
At one point on one of your trains the driver shouted Papillion over and over and everyone quickly hopped off the train with their belongings. We English speakers did not know what was happening! In English a Papillion is a dog…but after some stressful moments my husband realised he was saying Perpignan………NOT Papillion!
Abbé Rous (Terres des Templiers) If Banyuls-sur- Mer did not exist, Hollywood would have invented it. Surrounded by impossibly steep bleached terraced slopes protecting the town from harsh weather, the resort is just extraordinary. The domaine’s…
Local product market, grape pressing, musical entertainment in the village streets, special ’vendanges ball’, blessing of the harvest, arrival by sea of the grape harvest as in days of old when the barques catalanes brought the grapes to the beach………
