Llivia

Llivia (in Catalan: Llívia ) is a town of Spanish Catalogne, located on a plate of the northern part of the Pyrenees. Its territory of 12,83 km ² is wedged inside the French Département of the the Eastern Pyrenees, to approximately 100 km in the west of the prefecture Perpignan. It belongs to the Province of Gérone and the Comarque of Baixa Cerdanya.

History

According to the armorial bearings of Llivia, the mythological Héros Hercules would have forced Pirène there. The name of the city would be related to the Roman empress Livie, wife of Auguste and mother by a preceding marriage of Tibère. Llivia was in the Roman Empire the capital of Ceritania (the Cerdagne). Become municipe , its inhabitants accepted the civil laws of Roman citizens.

At the 8th century, the area is conquered by the Moslem . Llivia is baptized “Medinat-el-bab”, the city of the door, it indeed allowed the entry in the Francie Occidentale whose Moslem troops tried the conquest.

For this Moslem period, in 730, it is in Llivia that Mounouz, governor Berbère of the Pyrenees marries Lampégie, girl of the duke of Gascogne. Their end was tragic: Mounouz was killed by its co-religionists because they were wary of its negotiations with the Christians, and Lampégie finishes in the Harem Caliph. Their history inspired the Catalan author of the XIXe century Victor Balaguer I Cirera and the musician Déodat de Séverac.

With the the Middle Ages, the King of France Louis XI bought the city and destroyed the fortress of it to keep open the entry towards the Spanish kingdoms in the event of war.

In 1659, during the negotiation of the Peace of the Pyrenees between the kingdoms of France and Spain, Louis XIV was to receive the Roussillon and thirty-three villages cerdans. Lliviotes pointed out their antique statute of municipe , therefore of city. The Traité of Llivia attached the territory to the Spanish kingdom. On the ground, a “neutral road” (without customs control) of 4 km connects Llivia to the Spanish territory and the town of Puigcerda. The treaties of 1659 and 1660 were never called into question in spite of the conflicts between the two countries. The problems of smuggling disappeared with the unification from the interior market within the European Union.

Geography

Located on a plate of the northern slope of the mountainous solid mass of the the Pyrenees, the altitude of the territory varies approximately 1.200 m at the edge of the Sègre to 1.578 m in north in direction of the Pic of Mauroux.

The territory of Llivia takes the shape of a “L” thick, on a surface of 12,83 km ²; it gathered 1.252 inhabitants into 2005 divided into three agglomerations:

the principal city of Llivia in the center of the enclave at the edge of Sègre and opposite the commune of French Catalonia of Estavar,
the hamlet of Ceraja in north,
and the hamlet of Gorguja in the south-east, bathed by a small affluent of Sègre.

Tourism

the Middle Ages, Llìvia had the memory of Lampégie, marries of the Mounouz governor, and its name was given to several places of the city. The Romance church Our-Lady-of-Angels accommodates paintings of Miquel Marrugat, disciple of El Salvador Dalí and two festivals of Classical music in August and December. The Pharmacie opened at the 15th century became a museum.

Little urbanized, the enclave knows the breeding of horses of an old Pyrenean race.

Bond external

'' Ajuntament de Llívia '' (town hall of Llivia)
Llívia, Spanish enclave in France
'' The bordermarkers off Llivia ''
Monuments of LLívia

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