Tightened and Serrat apply to hills and small lengthened mountains (chaînes).Longa: long (reinforcement of lengthening).

Serralongue: long chain

Serralongue is a small commune of 238 inhabitants of the south of France, in the department of Pyrenees-Eastern (66). Its surface is 2 207 ha.

Sight of South

The village is to 720 m of average altitude, at the Franco-Spanish border (to 25 km by the Collar of Ares). Serralongue is located in Haut-Vallespir, in the canton of Prats-of-Mollo which includes/understands the communes of Lamanère, Tech, Coustouges and Saint-Laurent-of-Cerdans.

It dominates the valleys of Rianiol (Castell) and Lamanère.

Many hamlets surround the village: Box Undervalues, Can Guillamou, naturist Village, Grau, the Forging mill of Galdarès, Masots.

HISTORY: Protoceltes

About year 900 before J-C, Protoceltes, populates Central Europe, come by Austria to occupy all the Mediterranean basin.

These people practised the cremation of the bodies. Their necropolis was discovered with 600 meters in the south of the village, with the locality "El camp of mow Olles".

Several tombs were exhumed. The funeral urns discovered are exposed to the Museum of Tautavel (66). A copy is presented at the Museum of Serralongue.

Lords of CABRENÇ

Serralongue appears in the charters as of IXème century, but as Seigneurie as of XIème century until XIIIème century.