Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via

Font-Romeu- Odeillo- Via (in Catalan Font-romeu, Odello i VIA) is a municipality with 1839 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Pyrénées- Orientales (Northern Catalonia ) in the French region of Languedoc -Roussillon and in the comarca (district) of Conflent. The municipality is part of the Pyrénées Catalanes Regional Natural Park.

Here is a training center for the French Olympic team for the Olympic Games was founded in 1968 in Mexico. Furthermore, there is one of the largest solar furnace in Odello the world ( 1 MW thermal power and temperatures up to approximately 3600 ° C), which was built for research purposes. Odello has arrive a station on the narrow gauge railway " petit train jaune " with the numerous tourists from Villefranche -de- Conflent.

Near the small town of Prada de Conflent is ( fr. Prades ), where the Catalan cellist Pau Casals lived. The Romanesque monasteries of Sant Miquel de Cuixa and Sant Martí del Canigó are important landmarks of the Catalan culture.