Port-Vendres

Port-Vendres, a seaport of south-western France, in the department of Pyrenees-Orientales, in an inlet of the Mediterranean Sea, 191 m. S.S.E. of Perpignan by rail. Pop. (1906), 2525. Port-Vendres, the ancient Portus Veneris, is fourth in importance of the French Mediterranean ports, and forms a good harbour of refuge. Its trade, which is with Spain, Greece and Algeria, is in cork, carobs, grain and wine, &c.