Andorra
Eglises romanes d'Andorre
Eglises romanes d'Andorre
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- Eglises romanes d'Andorre (ID: 1269)
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- Andorra
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Removed from tentative list 1999
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- 1999: Added to Tentative List
- Added to tentative list
- 1999: Removed from Tentative List
- Removed from tentative list
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I can only comment of the one Romanesque church of Andorra that I have been to, the Church of Sant Esteve, in Andorra la Vella.
In 2016 I was staying in Barcelona with my Spanish wife, herself a Catalan native of Barcelona and I suggested we took a trip up to Andorra. Why? She asked, it's just a huge tax free shopping centre full of French and Spanish looking for a bargain and filling their cars with cheap petrol. Not to be put off, I persisted and one evening at a meal with several of my wife's Catalan friends I repeated my desire to go to Andorra. Almost in unison they said, why? it's just a huge shopping centre........
Anyway, a few days later we found ourselves driving through the snow capped mountains of the Pyrenees heading for Andorra and me thinking, this is beautiful, what are they talking about?
We finally joined the queue of traffic on the approach to the tiny capital of Andorra la Vella, where the roads were lined with endless petrol stations and supermarkets and signs advertising tax free products and I began to realise, my wife and her friends may be right after all.
Aside from all the retail opportunities to buy discounted goods, I found Andorra la Vella to be a rather pleasant town, with a few interesting historic buildings and some pleasant streets lined with bars and restaurants, charming would be pushing it, but pleasant it certainly was.
On the way back …