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How to get here?Some important dates...
Some important dates...
450 000 BC :
Tautavel Man, confirmed by historians as one of the oldest Europeans.
218 BC :
Hannibal and his elephants cross the Pyrenees over the Pass at Le Perthus.
118 BC :
Colonisation by the Romans, evidence of which is the “Via Domitia” which went from Italy to Spain along the Mediterranean.
412-418 :
Arrival of the Visigoths.
719 :
Arrival of the Arabs.
988 :
Birth of Catalonia.
1025 :
Re-birth of Perpignan as local capital.
1276 -1344 :
Birth and death of the Kingdom of Majorca.
1474 :
Proclamation of Perpignan “Fidelissima Villa”.
1640 :
Revolution and war “dels Segadors”.
1659 :
The treaty of the Pyrénées hands the Roussillon over to France.
1663-1673 :
Revolt of the Angels.
1792 :
Creation of the department of the Roussillon.
August 1944 :
Liberation of the Pyrénées-Orientales.
1988 :
Celebration of the millennium of Catalonia.