
On the territory of the municipality(Commune), in 40 minutes since the hotel, you will reach(affect) the Abbey Martinmas of Canigou based in 1005 by the Count Guifred Cabreta, Count de Conflent and of Cerdagne.
Martinmas of Canigou is known lovers of Romanic art for its pink marble capitals(big tops) of the XIIth andth XIIIth century.
We discover it as well animals as human dances or punishments.
One of the interests of this Romanic realization lives(lies) in the fact that treat(handle) the usual Romanic subjects in a anecdotal or satiric way.
Neither the earthquake of 1428, nor the abandonment(renunciation) from 1783 till 1902 got through(overcame) it.
The Abbot Carsalde of the Bridge(Deck) attracted(enticed) by his melancholic ruins decided on the Catalans to help him(it) in the restoration of the abbey.
The works began in 1903 and after an interruption from 1928 till 1952 started again of more beautiful under the cup(cutting) of the Father Bernard de Chabannes.
Since 1988, the abbey is lived by the Community of the Blisses which pursues the restoration and e