What Spanish Town Is Completely Surrounded By France

Llívia is plainly situated in france and should normally be french if you ask me if it were not for the ominous treaty of the pyrenees.

The spanish town stranded in france the view from the castle is so magnificent that it s easy to understand why warring empires didn t want to concede this gentle green valley tucked. The franco spanish war ran on from 1635 to 1659. It is separated from the rest of spain by a corridor about 1 6 km 1 0 mile wide which includes the french. Miquel ros cnn published 2020 dec 17 the view from the castle is so magnificent that it s easy to understand why warring empires didn t want to concede this gentle green valley tucked between the snow capped peaks of the catalán pyrenees.

Cnn the view from the castle is so magnificent that it s easy to understand why warring empires didn t want. The spanish town stranded in france. Llivia is a small spanish enclave completely surrounded by france. Welcome to llívia a little patch of spain stranded in france and one of europe s oldest enclaves.

Llivia is around eight square miles in area with a population somewhere in the vicinity of 1500. Although it s hard to tell from. Much like gibraltar llivia is a historical and cartographical anomaly.