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April 24th, 2010
Collioure 660053 66190
Pyrénées-Orientales Languedoc-Roussillon
42.527 3.084 20 m

Notre-Dame des Anges, Collioure

One view.
Retable of the high altar.

This parish church of the 17th century, of southernmost Gothic style with single nave closed by a semicircular apse, was built from 1684 to 1691. Its architecture advanced in the sea is supplemented by a bell-tower which is an old medieval lighthouse, covered with a cupola in 1809.

Inside, the remarkable retable of the high altar, carried out by the Catalan sculptor Joseph Sunyer de Manresa from 1698 to 1701, is a triptych of a 14 meters height and width of 9.30 meters.

Notre-Dame des Anges church and its retables.

COLLIOURE is a French commune, located in the department of the Pyrénées-Orientales of the Languedoc-Roussillon area, populated of 2763 Colliourencs in 1999, distributed out of 12 km², that is to say 228 hab./km².

Collioure is a Catalan village at the edge of the Mediterranean, on the Vermilion Coast, with 20 kilometers of the Spanish border.

The village of Collioure is quoted with 5th and 7th century, but was occupied as of prehistory.
The counts of Roussillon, kings d'Aragon, kings de Majorque, the Spanish sovereigns disputed Collioure and its area until 1643. Occupied by the troops of King of France Louis XIV, the area was annexed in France by the Treaty of the Pyrénées of November 7th, 1659.

Collioure was very known for its anchovies. It is it now for its sweet aperitif wines produced on slopes.

Henri Matisse, 1869-1954, and other initiating painters of the Fauvism, immortalized the city, his lanes, his roofs, his port, his bell-tower, his citadel, his bright light and his strong.strong.

History of Roussillon.

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