The Hermitage of Força Real
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The Força Real is located on a rocky hill overhanging all the Roussillon. From the top of its 507 meters high, the sightpoint spreads from the cape of Port-Vendres to Leucate, with a panorama spreading from the Agly valley to the Têt valley. It is on this strategic place, serving as landmark for the sailors, that the counts of the Roussillon built a signals tower, in relation with the Tautavel one. At the 20th century, the position of the rocky hook was a trump to build
a hertzian relay that used by the whole Roussillon plain.
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The Canigou seen from the Força Real