Enveitg

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Enveitg
Enveig
Enveitg coat of arms
Enveitg (France)
Enveitg
region Occitania
Department Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement Prades
Canton Les Pyrénées Catalanes
Community association Pyrénées Cerdagne
Coordinates 42 ° 28 ′  N , 1 ° 55 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 28 ′  N , 1 ° 55 ′  E
height 1,179–2,579 m
surface 30.52 km 2
Residents 641 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 21 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 66760
INSEE code 66066

Town view, in the background the Pyrenees

Enveitg [ ɑvɛtʃ ] ( catalan Enveig [ əmbɛtʃ ]) is a French commune of the department of Pyrénées-Orientales in the region Occitania . Administratively it is assigned to the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and the Arrondissement of Prades .

geography

The southern French mountain village with 641 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) is located in the Cerdanya countryside in the Carol Valley, right on the Spanish border. The small town of Puigcerdà in Catalonia lies across the border .

history

The name Enveitg is derived from the Latin invidium , French 'enviée' ('the envied').

Population development
year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2009
Residents 532 520 518 553 545 621 666

Attractions

church

The originally Romanesque church Église Saint-Saturnin dates back to the 12th and 13th centuries but was heavily modified in the 17th and 18th centuries. The surviving Romanesque windows in the apse have been a French cultural monument since 1936 .

The striking thing about the church are the sophisticated, triple window niches. The arches of the inner archivolts are decorated with a braid with a round bead in front. They are flanked by capitals , but the columns have not been preserved. The wedge stones of the round arches are bevelled and decorated with balls. A serrated frieze can be seen above the outer arches . Two half-columns are in front and decorate the apse. Ornaments made of balls and braids are also attached directly above the windows. The parts of the apse that were added later are made of rubble stone .

The Brangoly Dolmen is located in this part of Enveitg.

Bragoly Dolmen

The Dolmen de Bragoly has been a French cultural monument since 1936.

traffic

Enveitg is crossed by the European route 9 (corresponds to the N20 route in France ), which connects Paris with Barcelona .

Latour-de-Carol - Enveitg is the terminus of the Ligne de Cerdagne narrow-gauge railway, whichconnects Villefranche-de-Conflent with Enveitg. The train that runs on this route is often called Train jaune (yellow train) or jokingly Le canari (canary bird)by the local population because of its striking yellow paintwork. The mountain railway has become a tourist magnet. The travel time for the entire route (63 kilometers) is just under three hours.

Regional trains from Toulouse , a daily night train from Paris and individual Rodalies Barcelona trains from the Catalan capital also end at Latour-de-Carol - Enveitg station (as of 2020).

There is also a direct regional bus connection from Perpignan .

gallery

  • Saint-Saturnin Church

  • Window arch in the apse of the church

  • Bragoly Dolmen

  • The end of the Pyrenees of the Jaune Train

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La Revue hebdomadaire No. 36, Librairie Plon, Paris 1899, p. 534.
  2. ↑ Entry no. PA00104018 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  3. ↑ Entry no. PA00104017 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

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