A lively and popular border resort attracting weekend crowds from Spain as well as France. It has the biggest snow making operation in the Pyrenees and the second biggest bed base. An historic town, the lifts are 4km away. Font Romeu receives 3000 hours of sunshine yearly - more than the Rockies. There has been skiing here since 1921, most runs are short and flat. More challenging is Competition on the northern face. It's a perfect base for beginners and families.

The ski resort itself is above 1500m, so skiing or boarding back to the resort is usually possible. With skiing above 2000 metres, snow cover is generally reliable.

 

Snowmaking : Font Romeu is able to augment natural snow, on 21km of ski runs, with 500 Snow Cannons.

Ski Lift Capacity : The 25 Ski Lifts of Font Romeu are able to uplift 18,000 skiers / snowboarders per hour.

 

Snowboarding in Font Romeu : Boarders are well looked after at Font Romeu. The terrain park has plenty of features including tables, jumps and quarter pipe and there is music playing on the slope. There is also a boarder cross slalom course.

Leisure in Font Romeu : Font Romeu has many bars and hotels. The resort has a casino, cinema and a disco.

 

Font-Romeu, one of the most sporting place in France

You Absolutely Have To See

 

This Romance building, increased in the 18th century and deeply transformed in the 19th , is dedicated to St Martin. It keeps from the Romance period a beautiful carved gate, decorated of two capitals; strap hinges with volutes punts applied to the leaves of the door and a door with metal hinges, and a sitting Virgin of the 12th century. We can find there too, the black Virgin of Font-Romeu (13th Century) during a part of the year.

 

 

At the start of the century, there were only very few houses in the old village of Odeillo. The Grand Hôtel was built in between 1911/1913, and welcomed a laid-back clientele wishing to discover the joys of winter sports.

During the between wars period, the Grand Hôtel was one of the most famous palaces in the whole of Europe. It has since been transformed into flats during the 70s. Some of its architectural elements are listed in the “Additional Inventory of Historical Monuments”.

 

ERMITAGE CHAPEL

At the entrance of Bouillouses forest, the Ermitage Chapel hides, behind its walls, some vestiges of Baroque art. She testifies of the famous Catalan pilgrimage on the road of Saint-Jaques de Compostelle, to which Font-Romeu owes its name: Fountain of the Pilgrim

 

 

Built in 1968, the solar furnace of Odeillo shelters the National Scientific Research Center of which the specificity is research on elements and their properties at high temperatures. Its gigantic mirror concentrates up to 16 000 times the energy of the sun that hits the earth’s surface and is capable of reaching temperatures up to 3500 degrees. Therefore the Solar Furnace contributes in very significant ways to the setting and classifying of new materials.

 

(Source : www.font-romeu.fr)