Collioure is nestled along the spectacular Côte Vermeille in the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales in the Occitanie Region. This Southwestern France destination is a hidden gem that’s perfect ...

The 20-mile Côte Vermeille is the last stretch of the Rousillon coast before the Spanish border. Here, in the bottom right-hand corner of France, the Pyrenees tail off dramatically into the sea, and ...

It would be all too easy for Collioure to lose its identity. After all, it's a Mediterranean fishing village, a sort of cliché-on-sea by the Spanish border. It's true that the only trawlers moored at ...

Collioure is France with a Catalan accent, only 20 minutes from the Pyrenees and Spanish Catalonia. Its clean streets are full of small restaurants, art galleries, souvenir shops and chic boutiques.

This sheltered spot in south-west France attracted artists from Matisse to Picasso. We tour the ancient city, and nearby Vermillion Coast, that inspired them We’re on a train to the centre of the ...

Along the western Mediterranean coast, two easygoing — and easy-to-enjoy — beach towns stand like sister cities on each side of the Franco-Spanish border. Both Collioure, in France, and Cadaqués, in ...

From the Côte Vermeille's steep vineyards, our first glimpse of Collioure evokes a Victorian chemin de fer travel poster. Hemmed in by golden bays and with its toy-town harbour and tangle of lanes ...

Located in the south-eastern corner of France, 26km from the Spanish border, and contained in the small section of France that is part of Catalonia, Collioure has a distinctive French-Catalan culture.

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