Argelès-sur-Mer – Wikipedia

During World War II, Argelès-sur-Mer was the location of a concentration camp, where up to 100,000 defeated Spanish Republicans were interned next to a windy beach in abysmal sanitary conditions by the French government after the defeat of the Spanish Republic.The refugees streamed to the camp from the winter of 1938/39 after the collapse of the Catalan front following the rebel offensive.. Government and politics Mayors