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Pyrénées-Orientales: discovering Llivia, a landlocked Catalan town
Pyrénées-Orientales: discovering Llivia, a landlocked Catalan town
(France 2)
The 13 Hours takes you to discover a small landlocked Catalan town. Officially Spanish, the town makes its curiosity a tourist asset of the Pyrénées-Orientales.
In the Pyrénées-Orientales, Llivia is an officially Catalan village, landlocked in the heart of French territory. The first to claim it are the inhabitants of the town. “We have one foot in Spain and one foot in France, but here no one feels like they are in France”, assures one of them. This curiosity is due to a naming error in the Treaty of the Pyrenees which dates from the 17th century. Now, the city has made it a tourist asset.
Llivia functions like any Spanish town. The signs are in the local language. The town hall, school and public services are too. Sometimes we have trouble finding our way around. For example, a neutral road out of the village is both French and Spanish. For its part, the town of Llivia ensures good neighborly relations with the French municipalities surrounding it.
