Llívia is a town of the Cerdanya, Girona province, Catalonia that forms a Spanishexclave surrounded by French territory (Pyrénées-Orientales département).
The Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) ceded the comarques of Roussillon, Conflent, Capcir, Vallespir, and Alta Cerdanya to the French crown. Llivia did not become part of the French kingdom as it was considered a town, rather than a village, and the treaty only stated that villages north of the Pyrenees should become French.
External links
Official Web Site of Llívia (http://www.llivia.com/)
Llivia is a Spanish enclave in the French Pyrenees.
Llivia is connected by a neutral road (D68) with Spain and this road was until 1995 forbidden for foreign cars.
As a compensation for becoming an enclave, Llivia received in property a large French area to the west of the lake of Bouillouses, meant for cattle and forestry.
Llivia is a Spanish town, 6km from Puigcerda, totally surrounded by French territory.
Llivia is in the historical region of Cerdanya (name in Catalonian; it is Cerdaña in Spanish and Cerdagne in French), divided between France and Spain.
Llivia had been capital of the valley until the foundation of Puigcerda, and Spain had every intention of retaining it at negotiations, which were held in Llivia itself.
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