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The area

RUNDT OM FITOU

Fitou is in the Aude départment, one of 5 départements which make up the Languedoc Roussillon. There is over 300 days of sunshine a year in the Lauguedoc area. It seldomly gets under 0° during the winter while the Summers can get up to over 35°.
The Monsun winds that blow down the mountains can give a nice refreshing change to the air during the Summer.


Shopping

There is local supermarked in Fitou or the Carrefour center is about 10 min. by car. 
To name a few of the large cities in the area: Perpignan, Narbonne, Carsassonne,
Montpellier, Béziers are Barcelona (Spain). They are all less that 2 hours drive away.

The Beach

Leucate Plage and La Franqui are the closes beaches. They are about 10 min by car. The beaches are clean and nicely kept and very child-friendly.Windsurfing, kiteboarding, funboards and dinghy boards, are some of the beach sports that are popular for the area. There are wonderful beaches all the way to the Spanish boarder - so enjoy!

The Pyrénées

On the other side of the town the mountains start- and yes, we can name so many activities. A trip on the mountainbikes, a long hike, or a trip on the motorbike - there is no limit for activitiies in this area.  There is definately something for everyone. During the winter the most popular activity is skiing. There can be found 10 skiresorts all within 1½ hours drive, including Les Angles and Font Romeu.
http://www.lesangles.com/
http://www.font-romeu.fr/

The Town

Fitou town is truely a clssical French winetown with a population of approx. 
3000, and an almost unlimited number of wineproducers. Fitou-wine is highly reputable in all of Europe as a good quality wine. If you go for a walk through town you will find out real quickly that there are many wine caves, not to mention the good restaurants that are worth visiting. It takes about 10 minutes to walk to town from Villa Sunrise. Marketday in Fitou is Wednesdays. In St. Laurent de la Salanque there is a market on Sunday mornings.
http://www.fitou.fr/
http://perso.orange.fr/chateaudefitou
 

 

 



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