Argelès-sur-Mer
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Argelès-sur-Mer, commonly known as Argelès, is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the administrative region of Occitania, France.
The beach at Argelès-sur-Mer
Signature of mayor Paul Pujas in 1815.
Dolmen of the Collets de Cotlliure
Notre-Dame del Prat
Argelers concentration camp
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The Argelers concentration camp was an internment camp established in early February 1939 on the territory of the French commune of Argelès-sur-Mer for Spanish Republican refugees. Called La Retirada,
Argelès-sur-Mer
…contained about 100,000 Spaniards, mostly soldiers of the defeated Spanish Republican Army. During World War II, Argelès-sur-Mer was the location of a concentration camp, where up to 100,000 defeated Spanish Republicans were interned next to a windy beach in abysmal sanitary conditions by the French government after the…
Refugees in the camp, 1939
Commemorative monument for the survivors of the retirada (retreat).