Ville fortifiée de Perpignan
La ville fortifiée de Perpignan est la ville romane médiévale fortifiée de la ville de Perpignan, dans le département des Pyrénées-Orientales, au nord de la Catalogne. Elle a une forme ovale, se situe dans les environs de l'actuelle cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Perpignan. Ses limites étaient en grande partie au nord-ouest et au nord de la rive droite de la Basse, et à l'est, le ruisseau qui descendait du Puig dels Teixidors, ou Saint-Jacques (les rues actuelles de l'Université, le Rec et le Baluard de Au sud, la ville médiévale était délimitée par le Rec Comtal, qui suivait à peu près les rues actuelles d'Els Agustins, La Fusteria et Sant Salvador (aujourd'hui rue Émile Zola).[réf.
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The Hôtel de Ville is a municipal building in Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, southern France, standing on the Place de la Loge. It was designated a monument historique by the French government in 1886.
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The Battle of Perpignan or Battle of Niel on 17 July 1793 saw the French Army of the Eastern Pyrenees led by Louis-Charles de Flers defending against an offensive by the Spanish Army of Catalonia commanded by Antonio Ricardos. The French turned back the Spanish attacks and forced their opponents to pull back. Perpignan is now the capital of Pyrénées Orientales department, but in 1793 was the chief city of Roussillon province. The action was fought during the War of the Pyrenees, part of the War of the First Coalition.
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The siege of Perpignan took place in 1542, at Perpignan, between a larger French army commanded by Henry, Dauphin of France and the Spanish garrison at Perpignan. The Spaniards resisted until the arrival of the Spanish army under Don Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, causing the withdrawal of the French army. The siege was one of the costliest defeats of Francis I of France in the French offensive of 1542.
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Perpignan is the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in Southern France, in the heart of the plain of Roussillon, at the foot of the Pyrenees a few kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea and the scrublands of the Corbières massif. It is the centre of the Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole metropolitan area.
In 2021, Perpignan had a population of 119,656 in the commune proper, and the agglomeration had a total population of 205,183, making it the last major French city before the Spanish border. Perpignan is sometimes seen as the "entrance" to the Iberian Peninsula.
Perpignan was the capital of the former province and County of Roussillon and continental capital of the Kingdom of Majorca in the 13th and 14th centuries, as well as one of the most important cities of the Principality of Catalonia. It has preserved an extensive old centre with its bodegas in the historic centre, coloured houses in a series of picturesque streets and alleys stretching between the banks of the Têt and its tributary, the Basse.
The city is also known for its International Festival of Photojournalism, the medieval Trobades festival and its centuries-old garnet industry.
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