Things to do in Perpignan
Aug 31st, 2011 | By admin | Category: Best of PerpignanOnly in Perpignan can you find tours, one-of-a-kind sights and other attractions. Activities within the city and around Roussillon.
- There is not doubts that some cafes are made for coffee; others for meeting up with friends and others to sit and read. Café terrace on Place de la République are made for people-watching: where you can spend all day – sitting, drinking coffee after coffee, carefully observing everyone who is in the cafe and who walks by a spacious pastel-coloured façades square. Follow the sun through the day by changing terrace.
Place de la République also host a morning produce market. - The funerary cloister Saint Jean is the oldest example of funerary cloister preserved in France and one of the oldest and biggest in Europe. The chapel, which contains the most amazing contemporary stained glass windows (by American artist Shirley Jaffe) that bathes the interior in varying technicolor hues.
- Shopping at Marché Cassanyes, at Place Cassanyes, (daily, 7.30am to 1.30pm). This market is an institution on the city of Perpignan, typical of the ethnic mix of a city that has always welcomed immigrants and refugees. It has between 80 and 140 shops (food, clothing, cosmetics, shoes, jewelry, etc)
- Hyacinthe Rigaud, Maillol, Dufy, Picasso, Grau-Garriga and Miró at the Musée Hyacinthe Rigaud, a fine-art museum in an beautiful 18th century townhouse. Most of the artists drawn to the area by its light and colours are represented here.
- Paradis Foullis, a restaurant in an antique shop, at 17 rue de l’Ange, serving light food, coffee, homemade savoury tartes with tasty ingredients (such as foie gras, cheese). Enjoy a glass of chilled wine and extravagant desserts under a forest of Art Deco lights.