Perpignan is a city of in the suoth west of France
13 km from the Mediterranian cost
and 25 km from the
border of Spain.
It is the Prefecture of the Department Pyrenees Orientales (66).
Perpignan is the 4th largest city
of the
the region Occitanie.
Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659 - 1743)
was born in Perpignan.
He became a famous portrait painter
under the reign of Louis XIV.
