Girona · Cataluña
Llívia
A geographical oddity — a Spanish enclave inside France since 1659 — with a medieval aura that deepens the higher you climb its steep streets.
What Llívia is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Just 6km from Puigcerdà, surrounded by French territory.
Worth the trip
- Mare de Déu dels Àngels, a fifteenth-century church with Doric columns and a Baroque retablo
Fiestas
- The Llívia music festival (since 1982), held on August weekends, once featuring Montserrat Caballé
A little history
In 1659 the town officially became a Spanish enclave within France — though Spain ceded 33 villages to France that year, tiny Llívia, deemed a town, remained Spanish.
Who it suits: Day-trippers wanting a geographical curiosity
The numbers
The decision data — each figure against the Spanish average. Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 1.8°C 6°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 21.4°C 8.8°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 85 days 24% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 20 36 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €17,918 24% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.9%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2
- Nearest international school
- 89 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 12 min
- Nearest health centre
- 5.9 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 64 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,572
- Born in Spain
- 80.7% 8.1% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 5% 1.2% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.27 per 1,000
Numbers: SettleSpain town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma, Ministerio del Interior and the Catastro. National average = the unweighted mean across all 8,132 Spanish municipalities with data. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
How does Llívia fit you?
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