Llívia
Llívia municipality | ||
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View of Llívia from the Turó del Castell
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coat of arms | Map of Spain | |
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Basic data | ||
Autonomous Community : | Catalonia | |
Province : | Girona | |
Comarca : | Cerdanya | |
Coordinates | 42 ° 28 ′ N , 1 ° 59 ′ E | |
Height : | 1223 msnm | |
Area : | 12.84 km² | |
Residents : | 1,417 (Jan 1, 2019) | |
Population density : | 110.36 inhabitants / km² | |
Municipality number ( INE ): | 17094 | |
administration | ||
Mayor : | Josep Pous i Rodríguez | |
Website : | www.llivia.org/gallery.html | |
Location of the municipality | ||
Llívia ( cat. [ ˈʎiβiə ]) is a Spanish municipality with 1417 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019), which is located at an altitude of 1223 m in the Pyrenees .
Although the place is in the Alta Cerdanya , it is administratively assigned to the Catalan comarca Cerdanya (which is also known as Baixa Cerdanya ) in the province of Girona and thus belongs to Spain . It forms an exclave surrounded by French territory and is located immediately across the border near Puigcerdà , the main town of the comarca.
history
The Roman fortress Iulia Lybica was located on the Strata Ceretana, which (coming from Narbonne as Strata Confletana ) led through the strategically important high valley of the Segre River and ended in Lleida . The name of the place is said to go back to Julius Caesar , who had granted him municipal rights. The community developed early on into the capital of the high valley.
In the 8th century Llívia was considered the capital of the county of Cerdanya , but it lost this function as early as 1177 when Puigcerdà was founded five kilometers west and made the capital of Cerdanya.
In 1528 Charles V gave the place the rights of a small town. In the Peace of the Pyrenees of 1659, 33 villages in the eastern part of the Cerdanya fell to France, while Llívia was able to invoke the city rights and remained with Spain.
Community structure
Attractions
- Remains of the ancient fort on the hill above the city
- Defense towers and remains of the city wall in the old town
- City museum with inventory of the Farmàcia Esteve , one of the oldest pharmacies in Europe
- the menhir Pedra Dreta de Llívia
- the Llívia dolmen
Town twinning
- Boé in the Lot-et-Garonne department , ( France )
Boundary stone on the border between Llívia (Spain) and Angoustrine-Villeneuve-des-Escaldes (France)
Web links
- Official website of Llívia (four languages)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).