Become southernmost port, at the beginning of the XXème century, the city of the fauvism. Seaside resort and marina.

Collioure was already a stopover for Phéniciens or the Greeks. The port of Cauco Illibéris is attended as of highest Antiquity by brilliant civilizations of the Mediterranean circumference. After the incursions of the Visigoths and Buckwheats, Collioure is strengthened under Carolingiens. Of XIIè in XVIIè S, Collioure will alternatively be annexed to the kingdoms of Aragon, Majorque and France. The city goes back definitively to France in 1659 (Treaty of the Pyrenees).

Center of diving, veils, board with veil.

See: hostellery of Templiers, small museum of modern painting; the royal castle of Templiers, old residence of summer of kings de Majorque and Aragon (XIIème century); to the cemetery, fall it from the Spanish poet Antonio Machado; the district of Mouré, the museum of modern art Melt Peske, the workshops of anchovy saltings; the house of the vine and the wine; the church Our Lady of the Angels. With proximity, the Madeloc tower and the panorama on the coast.

In 1905, Matisse and Derain discover Collioure. Dazzled by the colors and the light, they give rise to Fauvisme. Today, the "way of Fauvisme", course of 20 reproductions exposed to the place even where the originals were painted, takes you along on their traces.

Picasso, Dali, Juan Gray, Hanicotte, Foujita them were also allured by Collioure.

Poetry, it-also, is present at Collioure. The famous Spanish poet Antonio Machado rests in the cemetery of the city. Each year, in February, its memory is honoured.

The Good Friday, night procession of Sanch; August 16, "festa major".

Blotti at the bottom of a handle of the rock coast, the village is integrated harmoniously into the landscape; even your sepia of the famous bell-tower, the castle, the beach and the mountains burned a little by the sun; small coloured houses of Mediterranean type.

Collioure, jewel of the vermilion coast, dominated by the strong Saint Elme, village filled between its royal castle of 14th and of 18th and its church of 17th, invite you to discovered Art and History.

Sand beaches or rollers, splits, limpid water will enable you to appreciate the bathe.

A small tourist train will walk you between vine and sea.

To guarantee the environmental quality, of the ashtrays of beach are distributed by the Tourist bureau.

Training courses of veil, deep-sea diving, left at sea and fishing are proposed to you.

The proximity of the mountain allows also the practice of the excursion, the climbing, the canyonning or the V.T.T…