Throughout the contrasting landscapes of Occitania, food and its traditions are is a cultural anchor, a way of life taught from generation to generation. Each region preserves its own specialities in ...

Occitan is still spoken across southern France as well as parts of north-western Italy and northern Spain (Credit: imageBROKER/Alamy) “Occitan is part of my very first memories,” Eluere told me.

Occitan is a Romance language that was the first language of the vast majority of people living in southern France until the early 20th century. Today, it is spoken by less than half a million people ...

Screenshot from ÒCtele website showing a program focusing on Occitan as “Lenga de cor” (“A language of the heart”). In southern France, a private TV initiative takes the safeguarding of the Occitan ...

Participants carry flags with the Occitan cross in Montpellier, southern France on October 24, 2015, during a demonstration in favor of the Occitan language (langue d'oc), the ratification of the ...

Think of the south of France and the lavender fields of Provence and Côte d’Azur likely spring to mind. But in Occitanie, Aude and the coastal city of Narbonne and surrounds offer up a ...

Image of the Virgin of Our Lady of Lourdes, Occitania, France The holy relics of St Bernadette of Lourdes, who the Virgin Mary appeared to in 1858, will be brought on a pilgrimage to Ireland ...

Occitan is still spoken across southern France as well as parts of north-western Italy and northern Spain (Credit: imageBROKER/Alamy) “Occitan is part of my very first memories,” Eluere told me.