| Sorède, located at 64 m of altitude within a green and peaceful framework, close to the beaches of the Mediterranean, with the foot of the solid mass of Albères, offers to you calms it, of the pleasant holidays and the healthy leisures.
The best reception is reservé to you by the hotel ones, pensions and restaurants, the hirers out of furnished and the camp-sites. You will find in the tradesmen of the products of quality, the fruits and vegetables of the country.
You will appreciate our wines of table, the muscatels and sweet aperitif wines which you will be able to taste on the spot, without forgetting the market, Tuesday and Friday.
After the beach, to distract you, the evening, many animations take place all the summer on the place of the village and in the village hall: folklores, balls and sardanes.
If you wish to visit the village, you will be able to see single manufacture in the world of the famous whip "Perpignan"; the church and its rétable of the XVIIIe century and of course collections of the Museum of Olivette with a ballade in the small train.
If you are amateur of jogging, a shaded path will lead you to the valley of Lavail and its Romane church of XIIe century.
For bitten pedestrian excursions, the mountain offers marvellous circuits to you of which one which will lead you to the oasis of freshness which is Our-Lady of the Castle.
Inaugurated, in 1681, the new hermitage will be increased and improved during centuries.A first brotherhood whose foundation was authorized by the pope Innocent XI was born since 1682. The canon François de Vilaplane was the director.At the XVIIIème century Joseph Calmetas of ELNE made build with its expenses two rooms and the sacristy.
The kitchen on the fountain and the camaril date from the XIXème century.
The Manufacture of the whips Since XIIIème century, one cultivates in Sorède Micocoulier.
Micocoulier is a tree which pushes in the South of France. The carters of the area were used for themselves of very flexible rods of micocoulier to lead their attachment.
The articles are manufactured with the hand according to traditional methods in wood of Micocoulier which is especially cultivated in Southernmost France.
The valley of the tortoises : http://www.lavalleedestortues.com/
Exposure of a collection of various railway materials(vapor and electric) Many produced models manuellement
Musée of Olivette: 44, street of Coscolleda -66690 Sorède - Tel.: 04 68 89 12 47
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