The Pyrénées-Orientales and Bélesta’s surroundings offer numerous activity possibilities, whether you’re interested in pre-history, medieval churches, castles and fortifications, natural heritage or modern and contemporary art.
The Prehistory itinerary:
- Museum of Prehistory in Bélesta
- European Centre of Prehistory in Tautave
- Museum of Archaeology in Céret.
Medieval church itinerary:
- Abbaye de Saint-Martin-du-Canigou: Benedictine monastery at the foot of Mt Canigou in an exceptional setting
- Prieuré de Serrabone: an architectural and sculptural Romanesque chef-d'œuvre
- Abbaye de St-Michel-de-Cuixa: a key monument of Catalan history
- Prieuré de Marcevol: Mt Canigou’s Romanesque monument
- Hospice d'Ille-sur-Têt: a center for Catalan heritagen
- Church and city of Villefranche-de-Conflent: an ensemble of medieval architecture within a fortified city
- Cathédrale et cloître d'Elne: an example of the evolution between Romanesque and gothic art. Episcopal center.
Castles and fortifications itinerary:
- Forteresse de Salses: guardian of the Spanish frontier
- Château of Castelnou: a chateau dominating a medieval village
- Château Royal of Collioure: royal residence and stronghold
- Fort Liberia: fort built by Vauban
- Ramparts of Villefranche-de-Conflent: a 1000-year-old city with intact fortified wall.
Natural heritage itinerary:
- Gorges de Galamus: vertigo and devotion in limestone
- Dam of Caramany
- Les Orgues of Ille-sur-Têt: curious geological formations dating back 4 million years
- Yellow train: first ecological train in France (1906)
- Hot water sources, thermal baths.
Modern and contemporary art itinerary:
- Museum of Modern Art, Céret
- The fauvism trail in Collioure (Matisse et Derain)
- The Mackintosh trail in Port-Vendres
- Château de Valmy in Argelès-sur-Mer (V.D Petersen, architect of power and dreams)
- Caves Byrrh in Thuirby Gustave Eiffel (metal architecture from the industrial age in the service of winemaking).
St Jacques de Compostelle itineraries:
120 km of trails between Perpignan and Bourg-Madame, crossing a hundred communes, with 3 distinctive experiences along the way :
- A heritage itinerary par excellence, an abundance of historical monuments, Romanesque, gothic and baroque churches, priories and monasteries, naturally trace the bends along this initiatory trail;
- A historical itinerary, loyal to the route followed by Saint Francis of Assisi;
- A natural itinerary, three types of landscape generously border the trail: sea, plain and mountain.
RIBERACH HÔTEL CAVE RESTAURANT
2a, rte de Caladroy - 66720 Bélesta - FRANCE
Tel : +33(0)4 68 50 30 10
Fax : +33(0)4 68 64 25 99
Service réservation by email ››
Service communication by email ››