Villefranche de Conflent (Villefranche-de-Conflent in French or Vilafranca de Conflent in Catalan) is a French commune, located in the Eastern Pyrenees Department, in the Occitanie Region.
All signs at the entrance to the city and Fort Liberia are bilingual, they are in French and Catalan.
History
Villefranche de Conflent is in Occitanie, at the confluence of the Tet and Cadi rivers, and covers an area of 446 hectares. Guillem Ramon, Earl of Cerdagna founded the town in 1091. The earl then had a residence in Corneilla-de-Conflent but wanted to make Villefranche its new capital. The place was chosen not by chance, because being located at the bottom of the Tet (Têt) river and merging with Cadi (Cady), the town controlled the access to the Conflent mainland.
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