Parc naturel régional Corbières-Fenouillèdes, Regional natural park in Aude and Pyrénées-Orientales, France

Parc naturel régional Corbières-Fenouillèdes is a regional natural park created in 2021, covering 99 communes across the Aude and Pyrénées-Orientales. It spans the limestone hills of the Corbières and the Fenouillèdes, from the Agly valley at about 60 metres to the pic Dourmidou at 1,843 metres. The photograph shows a bare grey ridge rising behind wooded slopes and a town.

The area received official regional park status in 2021 after local communities and regional authorities worked together to protect and develop it. Centuries of human settlement and farming shaped this landscape before it gained formal protection.

Villages within the park maintain traditional winemaking and crafts that shape daily life and local commerce today. You can see these practices in the vineyards and homes scattered across the landscape, where families continue methods passed down through generations.

The park can be reached from several entry points, and information centers offer hiking maps and guidance about protected areas. It helps to check route options before visiting and bring proper footwear for the varied terrain.

The park's logo, chosen in 2019 through a public call for suggestions and finalised by communications officer Marina Bonetto, combines a fortified castle silhouette, a valley relief and a bird of prey. The Arago cave at Tautavel, within the park, held bones of a hominin dated to about 400,000 years ago.