Sorède (; , that is ''cork oak wood'') is a commune in the

Pyrénées-Orientales Pyrénées-Orientales (; ca, Pirineus Orientals ; oc, Pirenèus Orientals ; ), also known as Northern Catalonia, is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France, adjacent to the northern Spanish frontier and the Mediterranean ...

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in southern

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Geography

Sorède is located in the

canton of Vallespir-Albères The Canton of Vallespir-Albères is a French canton of Pyrénées-Orientales department, in Occitanie. At the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, the canton was created including 8 communes from the canton of Céret ...

and in the

arrondissement of Céret The arrondissement of Céret is an arrondissement of France in the Pyrénées-Orientales department ( Northern Catalonia) in the Occitanie region. It has 64 communes. Its population is 129,464 (2016), and its area is . Composition The communes ...

Government and politics

Mayors

Population

Sites of interest

* The main church "St Assiscle et Ste Victoire", 14th century choir, 17th century Baroque sculptures. * Notre-Dame du Château, an 18th-century sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the mountains, and the ruins of the castle of Ultrera, dating from the early Middle Ages. * Saint Martin de Lavail, a 9th-century Romanesque chapel. * Since the 13th century,

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s have been made from the local

celtis ''Celtis'' is a genus of about 60–70 species of deciduous trees, commonly known as hackberries or nettle trees, widespread in warm temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The genus is part of the extended hemp family ( Cannabaceae). ...

tree. Celtis whips are still made by hand today in Sorède and visitors can tour the workshop where they are made.

Notable people

* Father Antonio Gomes, known as « Padre Himalaya », a Portuguese scientist and priest who experimented with one of the first

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s in Sorède in 1900. *

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- was one of the early winners of the Euro Millions Lottery in February 2004. Clarke won an estimated 19,000,000 Euros. He has lived between Sorède and Kent, UK for most of his life.

References

Communes of Pyrénées-Orientales {{PyrénéesOrientales-geo-stub