"Mountains I shall paint your spines tinged with blue over the beautiful bell- tower of Marquixane, and I want, on the front of it, draw the pure festoon of golden vineyards and the white trunk of a big plane tree". The poet Louis Codet evoked with these words this village.
The writer whose name was Jean Loize described the quiet country of Marquixane with its pink overlapped roofs, and when mosses add auburn glints.
The church with its squared scalloped and like lacemaking tower looks like a crown over this beautiful village, which can be compared to a Spanish palace.
When you will cross the threshold made of marble of the church, you will discover nine sparkling altarpieces where Wooden saints, exhilarated with incense, bustle around flowers and palms...
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