The 13 Most Amazing Peaks around Cerbère

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Very nice view on the France/Spain border.

The 205 m high Puig de Cervera lies directly on the border between the southern French municipality of Cerbère and the northern Catalan municipality of Portbou, marked by the border cross N 601. The view of the sea is magnificent, the descent to Portbou is somewhat exposed and not entirely easy.

Wonderful view of the sea.

Peak that is part of the FEEC list of 100 peaks where two states and three municipalities meet, Portbou, Cervera de la Marenda and Banyuls de la Marenda. From this point you get wonderful views of the Mediterranean to the east and the Albera mountains to the west, in a magnificent 360º panorama that includes Puig de Sallafort, Puig Neulós and Cap de Creus. At the top we find the ruins of an old medieval castle from the s. X-XI. The round tower is a later construction of the s. XIV or s. XV Until the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) when the current northern Catalan counties came under French jurisdiction, the castle depended ecclesiastically on the Count of Empúries and the Bishopric of Girona. The construction technique, like the material, is reminiscent of the castle of Sant Salvador Saverdera, near Sant Pere de Rodes, a peak also included in the list of the 100 Peaks. Salvem Querroig is a northern Catalan association that aims to restore the remains of the castle. For this reason, he had to contact the heir of the last known owner, Ponç Hug, Count of Empúries (1309). The current owner turned out to be Sol María de la Blanca de Medina i Orléans-Braganza, countess of Empúries, of the Ducal House of Medinaceli, based in Seville, and who has granted her permission for the works.

Modest summit located at the easternmost point of the Pyrenean ridge. This fact is what gives it a well-deserved relevance, since it can well be considered the first/last summit of the Pyrenees. Although the small range of Cap de Creus, geographically, is located in a more eastern area, we can not consider it properly Pyrenean since it is located clearly outside its axial axis. El Puig de Cervera (208m), on the other hand, is located entirely on this imaginary axial axis of the Pyrenean chain, and for this reason, we can consider it another peak of the aforementioned mountain range. Another notable feature is that at the same summit we will find border bollard no. 601, and therefore penultimate of all those located on the interstate border. The last border pillar, no. 602, we will find it at the so-called Punta de l'Ocell, which is nothing more than the eastern spur of the Puig de Cervera, which ends up plunging into the Mediterranean. Access to Punta de l'Ocell can only be done with a boat going into the sea. Even so, the access is delicate since this whole area is made up of rocky cliffs, so the person who wants to approach this Point must have a good mastery of the marine arts. This fact is probably what has caused this pylon, number 602, to be possibly the least visited of all the existing ones, despite having a great symbolic load. It has recently been included in the list of 100 peaks of the F.E.E.C: https://www.feec.cat/activitatis/100-cims/cim/puig-de-cervera/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPlOy4QOhtc. The Madeloc tower is a 13th century watchtower located in North Catalonia, in the Albera mountain range. With a height of 650 m, it is visible from the Mediterranean coast to the massifs of the French Pyrenees-Orientales. The tower, erected in the times of Jaume II, king of Mallorca and count of Roselló, had the mission of watching out for Arab incursions on the coast. During the Mallorcan and Aragonese sovereignty, it was part of a network of watchtowers together with the Maçana tower.

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