Perpignan

Perpignan (Catalan: Perpinyà) is a city in the south of France. It is also a commune and the capital of the Pyrénées-Orientales department. Perpignan was the capital of the old province and county of Roussillon (Rosselló in Catalan) and continental capital of the Kingdom of Majorca in the 13th and 14th centuries. Perpignan was named, from 2001, as a City of Art and History (French: Ville d’Art et d’Histoire) by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.