The first snowfall of the upcoming winter season 2021-2022 hit the Pyrenees-Orientales yesterday, on 3 October. As a result, access from France to the neighboring Andorra was temporary blocked.
You can get to Andorra from France only by going up the mountain serpentine to the border town of Pas de la Casa. This road is often …
MoreThe results of a study, in which various research centres in Spain and France have participated, show that the rate of ice reduction has remained similar since the 1980s. In the last ten years, the thickness of the ice of some glaciers has decreased by an average of 10 metres, exceeding 20 metres in some …
MoreThere is a mixed picture across the country, with many campsites, hotels and holiday homes in rural areas fully booked, while occupancy rates in Barcelona remain low.
A lack of foreign visitors is being felt in coastal areas and beach resorts.
Meanwhile, hotel bookings in the Pyrenees are currently between 80% and 90%, according to the Lleida …
More“There will be people along the side of the road at the Tour de France, and apart from at the starts, the finishes and on the climbs, where there will be restrictions, life will go on as normal elsewhere. That’s why we’re calling for people to please wear masks,” Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme …
MoreCarcassonne is a fortified city in the Aude department, Occitania, France. The city is one of the most important historical places in France: not so much because of the age of the fortress, but its scale – a picturesque medieval town with streets, houses and churches hidden behind three lines of fortified walls. The Mayor …
Morephoto: L’arxiu de l’Alt Urgell
The County Archive of the Alt Urgell catalogued a parchment with what would be one of the oldest testimonies of the “baixada de falles” in the Pyrenees, dated February 5, 1543, in which clear reference is made to the region of the Alt Urgell. The document in question, found …
Morephoto: Pirineus Watt (PW)
The Association Pirineus Watt (PW) is developing a network of cultural routes, to promote the hydroelectric heritage and landscape of the Pyrenees. The first of them is the Pearson Route, named in honour of Frederick Stark Pearson, the engineer who in the early twentieth century contributed greatly to the production …
MoreThe Minister of Tourism, Veronica Canals, met on Wednesday with the newly appointed General Director of Atout France, Caroline Leboucher, to promote collaboration with the French Tourism Development Agency.
During the meeting, also attended by the Tourism Director, Sergi Nadal, the ambassador of Andorra to France, Eva Descarrega and the Marketing Director of Atout France, Sophie …
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The first two-day Inter-Pyrenees Congress ended in La Seu d’Urgell, the Catalan city bordering Andorra, with a participation of 180 media representatives of the Pyrenees publishing information in Catalan. The event was attended by journalists and editors of the Basque Country, Navarra, Aragon, Catalonia, Ariege, Andorra, the Balearic Islands and Valencia. Among …
MorePIRIBUS – a traveling exhibition that has already been to 13 places in the Pyrenees, will stop in Andorra.
The goal is to appreciate the Pyrenees heritage based on its natural, cultural and tourist elements with environmental education as the main tool. The exhibition covers four areas: geological history, landscapes, biodiversity and the history of mankind. …
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