City: Perpignan is a city in the South
of France, located near the Mediterranean Sea on the Spanish
border. The city, with its 118,221 inhabitants, is located
in the French part of Catalonia. In the suburbs of Perpignan
there are more than 300,000 residents. In the past Perpignan
belonged to the Kingdom of Majorca, in fact between 1278 to
1344 it was the capital. In the period from 1344 till 1493
the city was part of the principality of Catalonia. After
the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) Perpignan came under the
jurisdiction of France.
