Collioure France
by Chuck Kuhn
Title
Collioure France
Artist
Chuck Kuhn
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Photograph - Photography
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Surrounded by less appealing resorts, lovely Collioure is blessed with a privileged climate and a romantic setting. By Mediterranean standards, this seaside village in southwest France should be overrun — it has everything. Like an ice-cream shop, Collioure offers 31 flavors of pastel houses and six petite, scooped-out, and pebbled beaches sprinkled lightly with beachgoers. This sweet scene, capped by a winking lighthouse, sits under a once-mighty castle in the shade of the Pyrenees mountains. Evenings are best here — as the sky darkens, yellow lamps reflect warm pastels and deep blues.
Just 15 miles from the Spanish border, Collioure shares a common history, culture, and independent attitude with Barcelona and its other Catalan cousins on the other side of the border. Collioure is happily French, yet proudly sports yellow-and-red Catalan flags, street names in French and Catalan, and business names with el and las rather than le and les. Sixty years ago, most villagers spoke Catalan, and today the language is enjoying a resurgence as Collioure rediscovers its roots.
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October 5th, 2017
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