Trail Guide HI KES Ermitage de Notre-Dame de Pène CASES-DE-PÈNE Level 2h30 - 7 km 250 m ©Lionel Moogin www.pholio-m.com GPS Coord. 42°46'49.4"N 2°47'27.6"E Via D117 (Perpignan/Foix axis) to Cases-de-Pène. At the roundabout, go to the tourist information...
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Trail Guide HI KES Ermitage de Notre-Dame de Pène CASES-DE-PÈNE Level 2h30 - 7 km 250 m ©Lionel Moogin www.pholio-m.com GPS Coord. 42°46'49.4"N 2°47'27.6"E Via D117 (Perpignan/Foix axis) to Cases-de-Pène. At the roundabout, go to the tourist information board near the picnic area and the Moulinas playground. Park in the parking lot . Hermitage of Our Lady of Pene This easy trail will take you from the village of Cases-de-Pène to the old chapel, a vestige of the past, where the county castle of Pèna once overlooked this part of the Agly valley. From the old village this trail will make you start to climb uphill, through a modern housing estate, and suddenly, you will be in the middle of nature: a wild limestone valley lined with garrigue (characteristic local scrubland), in the middle of slabs of rock. Take in the view and savour the serenity of the place. A family trail, across dry stony ground (good shoes recommended). 18th centuries were not clergymen living a life of Heritage isolat
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