Pyrénées-Orientales

France

Pyrénées-Orientales connects to 3429 other places across 17 topics through 71 Bunkabop connections, spanning nature, government, history, and music. The department straddles a French-Spanish cultural boundary: five of its sub-regions are historically Catalan-speaking and one is Occitan-speaking. Its ties to Spain and Barcelona run deep, reflected in a push to form a Eurodistrict with the Generalitat of Catalonia. Tautavel, in the department, yielded a human skull dated as the oldest found in Europe. Vauban fortifications at Villefranche-de-Conflent are a UNESCO World Heritage site.