LlÃvia
Llívia ( cat. [ ʎiβiə ] ) is a Spanish municipality with 1625 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013), which lies on 1223 m altitude in the Pyrenees.
Although the site is located in the Alta Cerdanya, but is administratively the Catalan comarca of Cerdanya (which is also called the Baixa Cerdanya ) assigned in the province of Girona and thus belongs to Spain. It forms an exclave surrounded by French territory and is located directly across the border near Puigcerdà, capital of the comarca.
History
The Roman fortress Iulia lybica was due to the Strata Ceretana which (as a Strata Confletana coming from Narbonne ) led by the strategically important high valley of the Segre River and ended in Lleida. The name of the place to go back to Julius Caesar, who had granted him the right community. Early on, the municipality developed the main town of the Valley.
In the 8th century Llívia was regarded as the capital of the county of Cerdanya, but this function is lost already in 1177, when five kilometers west Puigcerdà founded and became the capital of the Cerdanya.
1528 was the site of Charles V, the rights of a small town. In the Treaty of the Pyrenees of 1659 fell 33 places in the eastern part of the Cerdanya to France, while Llívia could refer to the city charter, and remained in Spain.
Community structure
- Llivia
- Cereja
- Gorguja
Attractions
- Remains of the ancient castle on the hill above the city
- Defense towers and remains of the wall in the old town
- City Museum with the inventory farmacia Esteve, one of the oldest pharmacies in Europe
Twinning
- Boé in the department of Lot- et- Garonne (France)