Andorra is a beautiful little country situated between France (Ariège and Pyrénées-Orientales) and Spain (Catalonia). Has a population of about 90,000 inhabitants living within a territory of about 468 square km (181 sq mile). Its Capital is Andorra la Vella. Four rivers water the country: the North Valira, the East Valira, the Valira and the Madriu, which after junction at Escaldes-Engordany become the Great Valira.
Les sept paroisses possèdent d'importants vestiges de l'art roman ainsi que d'autres cultures. Ce sont des endroits dignes d'être visités, qui méritent bien une halte et qui supposent de réconfortantes promenades et la découverte de traits caractéristiques de l'histoire.
Vous trouverez dans ces pages quelques-unes des chapelles que possède l'Andorre et auxquelles vous pourrez facilement accéder. Si l'une d'entre elles vous intéressait tout particulièrement, n'hésitez pas à vous renseigner auprès de l'Office du Tourisme de chaque paroisse
LA BORDA
Les sept paroisses possèdent d'importants vestiges de l'art roman ainsi que d'autres cultures. Ce sont des endroits dignes d'être visités, qui méritent bien une halte et qui supposent de réconfortantes promenades et la découverte de traits caractéristiques de l'histoire.
Vous trouverez dans ces pages quelques-unes des chapelles que possède l'Andorre et auxquelles vous pourrez facilement accéder. Si l'une d'entre elles vous intéressait tout particulièrement, n'hésitez pas à vous renseigner auprès de l'Office du Tourisme de chaque paroisse
LA BORDA
Andorra est un beau petit pays situé entre la France (Ariège et Pyrénées Orientales) et l’Espagne (Catalogne). A une population d’environ 90,000 habitants, vivant sur un territoire de 468 km. La Capitale est Andorra la Vella. Quatre cours d’eau arrosent le pays: le Valira del Nord, le Valira d’Orient, le Madriu et après leur jonction aux Escaldes-Engordany le Gran Valira.
The following are the apartments, hotels, guest house with corresponding town and parishes. Frontera Blanca, Turístics Bonell, Turístics Borda Canaro, Turístics Casa Vella Popaire, Turístics del Meligar, Turístics Manzano, Turístics Sant Romà, Patagonia Austral, Juvell Boarding House.........
The nerve centre of Andorran commerce consists of Avinguda Meritxell and Avinguda Carlemany, a single artery with two names, the first for the part in Andorra la Vella and the second for the part in Escaldes. Until 1978 Escaldes-Engordany and Andorra la Vella were a single parish but constant population growth and the desires of its inhabitants led to it being split up into the two centres.
The visitor entering Andorra across the Spanish frontier makes first contact with the Principality in the parish of Sant Julià de Lòria. Large supermarkets, an abundance of petrol stations, but Sant Julià also offers art lovers a great number of churches and small chapels.
Historically this parish was the centre of the tobacco industry, one of the most important in the country, and it consists of the centres of Sant Julià de Lòria, Bixessarri, Aixovall, Certers, Llumeneres, Nagol, Aixirivall, Aubinyà, Juberri and Fontaneda.
Andorra la Vella is the most populated parish - the Principality is divided into seven constituencies called "parishes" - and its centre is at the same time the capital of the country. So it is the parish where the institutional and administrative buildings are to be found.
This parish contains the highest point in Andorra, the peak of Comapedrosa at an altitude of 2942 metres. One should also note its wealth of rivers since it is crossed by the Northern Valira, the rivers of Arinsal, Pal and Montaner, and numerous tributaries and streams. Its wealth of mineral waters is considerable.
Sornàs, Ansalonga, La Cortinada, Llorts and Ordino, five "quarts" or villages, make up the parish. Ordino is the opposite extreme to the hectic pace of Andorra la Vella or Escaldes. It is a fortress of peace. Farming is more in evidence than commercial offers or hotel complexes and it has maintained, intact we feel, its air of a gentlemanly retreat.
Even as far back as the last century, the hot spa waters of this area captured the interest of a number of foreign companies who wanted to create a spa and recreational centre geared towards a tourism for the elite.
LOCATION: ESCALDES-ENGORDANY
You can start from Escaldes by leaving the town in the direction of Encamp.
LOCATION: ANDORRA LA VELLA
This eminently cultural route supplemented by its respective nature itinerary will permit you to discover the natural beauty hidden in the heart of Andorra. You can start from the centre of Andorra la Vella.
Regardless of whether you plan to spend a holiday in Andorra or just to make a short visit, this guide will prove very usefui. It will help you to get to know some of the most beautiful and surprising corners of this littie country.
The itineraries presented here have been carefully prepared and differ in many ways from the well-known paths that are usually suggested.
The abundant snowfalls of 1924 would have delighted skiers in the 90s but the snow which lavishly covered the country was of no benefit to the less than numerous inhabitants of the Principality of Andorra who were suffering severe difficulties in getting from one village to the next. Despite this, the mail service had to go on and that year Miquel Farré, the postman at Soldeu, during one of his habitual journeys on snow shoes to the French village of Porta to fetch the mail discovered the long ash wood planks which his French colleagues were using to get about.