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Camping La Clapère proche de Perpignan 66 Pyrénées orientales France

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Things to do off-camping

Located 100 m, the Clapers is a perfect base for exploring our beautiful region. You’re more sports? Relaxation? Culture? There’s something for everyone and you’ll be spoiled for choice to fill the days you spend on tourism.

What to do nearby the Camping La Clapère

Picturesque setting of local produce markets are held in the morning or evening throughout the region. Summer parties and votive enliven the surrounding villages: Maureillas is only 2 km from the Field Clapers.

For art lovers, the town of Ceret 6 km hosts the Museum of Modern Art.

Over this village, called capital of the cherry has a bullfighting tradition since the late sixteenth century and bullfights are held around July 14 followed by demonstrations of local dances including the Sardana.

Camping, you are only 8 km from Perthus border town with Spain and beyond to the Junquera and Figueres, birthplace of the famous painter Salvador Dali, the museum contains remains of the finest works of the Master Surrealism.

On the nearby Mediterranean (30 km) Argelès sur Mer and naturist beaches can be a destination for you to continue living in freedom. Collioure, Banyuls, Port-Vendres, always on the Vermilion coast, as many common sea must see to their sides seaside tourism and warm.

Leisure and culture close to Maureillas

Romanesque art lovers, do not forget to visit the Abbey of St Martin Canigou overlooking the village of Casteil to 81 km from the Clapers, and the Benedictine monastery: the Abbey of St Michel de Cuxa. Explore the natural areas Bouillouses to Font-Romeux and qu’Odeillo and oven Solar pioneer of clean energy, one of the world’s largest with 2,592 square feet of heliostats. Make a hook on the capital of French Catalonia: Perpignan, sunny 300 days a year, you’ll be seduced by the palace of the kings of Majorca and its gardens, Castillet old jail converted into a museum and many other equally glorious monuments and historical XIV and XVI centuries.

Sports activities in the Pyrénées Orientales

Sports friends, enjoy the proximity of Canigou which culminates at 2784 m to an altitude cure, try out the GR 10 and hug the mountains already climbed by the greatest cyclists of various Tour de France: camping, you Not very far from the Col de Puymorens In this regard, the Domaine de la Clapers is only a hundred km from Limoux city that will be starting towards Montpellier Sunday, July 17.