Vernet-les-Bains (French pronunciation: [vɛʁnɛ le bɛ̃] ⓘ; Catalan: Vernet) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

The village has a sunny climate (with, on average, 300 days of sunshine each year) and is set in a sheltered valley in the foothills of the Canigou mountain - which rises to a height of 2,785 metres (over 9,000 feet).

The line has the highest station in France at 1,593 metres (5,226 ft) and is both a lifeline during winter conditions and a tourist attraction.

Near the highest point in Vernet-les-Bains, next to the mairie (town hall), stands a monument to the Entente Cordiale of 1904.

That in turn is located on a raised, level area of ground which covers 1,000 square metres and which is bounded by low stone walls.

The wealthy British visitors who regularly came to this health spa at that time actively supported the project.

Little further happened until August 1920, when it was proclaimed by presidential decree that work on the monument would proceed but that it would be dedicated both to the Entente Cordiale and to the memory of those killed during the war.

The stonemason, Monsieur Herbetta, worked up to fourteen hours a day, often in the sun's full glare, fashioning and putting into place the enormously heavy blocks of stone.

To the memory of soldiers from Vernet who died for their country" The Église Saint-Saturnin is a church sitting on a hill with views of the mountains across the river.

During the 1960s the building closed for repairs, and didn't reopen until 1997, when a retired Anglican priest was asked to re-open the church.