Argelès-sur-Mer in Occitania
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Argelès-sur-Mer (literally Argelès on Sea;
Catalan : Argelers de la Marenda or Argelers;
Occitan : Argelers de Mar), commonly known as Argelès, is a
commune in the
Pyrénées-Orientales department in the
administrative region of
Occitania ,
France . It is about 25 km from
Perpignan .
Argelès-sur-Mer is located in the canton of La Côte Vermeille and in the arrondissement of Céret . Argelès-sur-Mer is on the Côte Vermeille at the foot of the Albères mountain range, close to the Spanish border. It has the longest beach in the Pyrenées Orientales.
Notre-Dame del Prat © Palauenc05/cc-by-sa-4.0
During
World War II , Argelès-sur-Mer was the location of a
concentration camp , where up to 100,000 defeated Spanish Republicans were interned next to a windy beach in abysmal sanitary conditions by the French government after the defeat of the
Spanish Republic . The refugees streamed to the camp from the winter of 1938/39 after the collapse of the
Catalan front following the rebel offensive.
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