Llívia

Before Ancient Rome, Llívia was the site of an Iberian oppidum that commanded the region.

During the time of Ancient Rome, it was named after Livia, and was called Julia Lybica. It was the capital of Cerdanya until it was replaced by Hix, a commune of Bourg-Madame, France.

In 672, during the period of the Visigoths, its citadel, the castrum Libiae, was held by the rebel Flavius Paulus (Paul of Narbonne) against King Wamba.

In the 8th century, it may also have been the scene of the siege by which governor Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi of Muslim Spain rid himself of the Moorish (Berber) rebel Uthman ibn Naissa ("Munnuza"), who had allied himself with Duke Eudo of Aquitaine to improve the chances of his rebellion, ahead of the Battle of Tours (732 or 733), also known as the Battle of Poitiers.

In 1479, during the Catalan Civil War, Llívia castle was destroyed by the forces of Louis XI after fourteen months of siege.

Following the Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659), the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 ceded the comarques of Roussillon, Conflent, Capcir, Vallespir, and northern Cerdanya ("Cerdagne") to the Kingdom of France and established the Pyrenees as the border between France and Spain. However, the treaty stipulated that only villages were to be ceded to France, and Llívia was considered a town (vila in Catalan), since it had the status of the ancient capital of Cerdanya. So Llívia remained a Spanish enclave within France. This situation was confirmed in the Treaty of Llívia, signed in 1660. The maps were not accurate and it was originally not obvious that Llívia would be an enclave. The borders were ratified in the Treaty of Bayonne in 1866.

Under the Nationalist government of Francisco Franco, residents required special passes to cross France to the rest of Spain.

After the Spanish Civil War, there were several initiatives to convert Llívia into a free republican territory.

The road connecting Llívia to the rest of Spain was the location of the war of the stop signs; stop signs were placed by the French authorities and removed overnight by protesters on many instances in the 1980s.

During the 2017 Catalan independence referendum, a vote on the Catalan declaration of independence, 561 out of 591 votes cast in Llívia were in favour of independence. The referendum was deemed illegal by the Spanish courts, but the Spanish police did not intervene to stop the vote in the town.

Fiestas:

Festcat. Escuela de la fiesta. Se celebraba la segunda semana completa del mes de julio, con cursos, talleres, espectáculos y actividades abiertas a toda la población de la comarca, en las que participan destacados artistas y tertulianos. Se realizó desde 1996 hasta 2012, año en que se celebró la última edición debido a la baja participación.

Educación:

El centro educativo Escuela Jaime I se ubica en Llivia.​ Fue construido en la década de 1950. A partir de 2016 un nuevo centro educativo está en construcción, con una planta baja de 500 m cuadrados y un piso segundo de 250 m cuadrados.​

Deporte:

Llivia dispone de un pabellón polideportivo municipal, un campo de fútbol, una piscina municipal, una pista de monopatinaje y un centro de hípica.

Los deportes más practicados entre los llivienses son el baloncesto y el fútbol. En verano la piscina se llena de turistas.

Por Llivia pasa el Camino de Santiago que procedente de la Europa meridional que entraba por los collados de la Perxa y Pimorent en dirección a Jaca donde confluía con otros caminos.​

Mercadillo semanal: Sábado, de 09:00 a 15:00 · N-154, 56

•Puigcerdà - Montserrat (GR 4, 163.64 km)

•Tour de la Cerdagne

•De la Manche aux Pyrénées 24, Sournia - Bourg-Madame

•Tour du Carlit

•Bosquet de Puigcerdà llac de Torniquet (4.8 km)

•Puigcerdà Guingueta d'Ix Llivia Ur (15.3 km)

•Sèquia de Puigcerdà Enveig (7.9 km)

•TC074 Puigcerdà Onzès Llívia Ur Rigolisa Puigcerdà (TC074, 17.7 km)

•TC063 Saneja Sant Martí d'Aravó Puigcerdà (TC063, 9.2 km)

•Camí Ramader de Marina (CRdM, 230 km)

•Territori Cerdanya 360 (177 km)

•El Camí IT1TR4 El Camí Capçaler: de Salzes a Balaguer (CC-C)

•Luis Cutchet, periodista, escritor e historiador español (1815-1892)

•Antonio Roca, grabador español (fl. 1838-1862)

•Francisco Fabra, 23.IV.1778 - 11.I.1839

•Pedro Manaut, médico y escritor español

Alcaldía: Albert Cruïlles

Web oficial: http://www.llivia.org