Os de Civís explained

Os de Civís should not be confused with Civís.

Official Name:Os de Civís
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Spain Province of Lleida#Spain Catalonia#Spain
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Spain
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Autonomous community
Subdivision Type2:Province
Subdivision Name2:Lleida
Subdivision Type3:County
Subdivision Name3:Alt Urgell
Subdivision Type4:Municipality
Subdivision Name4:Les Valls de Valira
Population As Of:2005
Population Total:104
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Coordinates:42.5°N 27°W
Elevation M:2150

Os de Civís (in Catalan; Valencian pronounced as /ˌoz ðə siˈβis/) is a village in the central Pyrenees mountains, in the municipality of Les Valls de Valira in Catalonia, Spain, and is located to the west of Andorra, near the villages of Aixàs and Bixessarri. Civís is the nearest Spanish village. It is the most populated village in the municipality.

Os de Civís is very close to the Spain–Andorra border, and is unique in being the only Spanish village that can be reached by vehicle only by going through Andorra. [1] The border crossing is unique in Andorra in that there is no border control: Andorra is in neither the Schengen Area nor the European Union, and thus operates full border and customs checks at all other border crossings with Spain and France, but the crossing to Os de Civís is unpoliced as the road leads solely to the village, with no access to anywhere else in Spain. The village has a number of medieval buildings, including a Romanesque church.

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42.5106°N 1.4397°W

Notes and References

  1. Book: Timothy . Dallen J. . Tourism in European Microstates and Dependencies: Geoploitics, Scale and Resource Limitations . 6 November 2020 . CABI . 978-1-78924-310-9 . 128 . 5 May 2022 . en.