History
The area has always been an important pass through the Pyrenees. A contemporary motorway runs not far from the ancient Roman road, the Via Augusta. Not far from there is an altar erected by Pompey at the Coll de Panissars.
La Jonquera was a site of a conflict involving the retreating French crusaders in 1285 that ended in their defeat.
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