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In the valley of the Tet, halfway between the sea and the mountains, the site of the Orgues offers to the eye these astonishing natural structures that are the "fairy chimneys". It is a unique landscape with colored reliefs that water has sculpted in clays and sands torn from the Pyrenean massifs and deposited in the Tet for 5 million years.
The natural site
Peaks, gorges and landscapes
Orgues d’Ille-sur-Têt
About 5 million years · Listed site (1981)
Sculpted by erosion from sands and clays some 5 million years old, the fairy chimneys of the Orgues raise their columns opposite the Canigó, half an hour from Perpignan.
- Height of the columns
- about ten metres
- Age of the sediments
- about 5 million years (Pliocene)
- Listed site
- since 1981
- Management
- commune of Ille-sur-Têt
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Source : Pyrénées-Orientales Tourisme (DATAtourisme, Open Licence 2.0) · updated 16 Oct 2026