Andorra La Vella, Andorra (Capital)

Ariel View of Principality of Andorra la Vella, Andorra

Andorra la Vella, Andorra (Capital) (5/1/2013) – Welcome to Europe’s tax-free sky where the French too Spaniards flock to purchase almost anything you lot tin intend of.

Barri Antic (Old Quarter) - Principality of Andorra la Vella

Andorra has over 2,000 shops too shopping is 1 of the chief things to practise inwards Andorra's upper-case missive of the alphabet urban substance of Principality of Andorra la Vella. It’s duty-free shopping makes things significantly cheaper. The urban substance is filled alongside many shops offering electronics, watches, perfume, etc. Being at an elevation of 3,356 feet, Principality of Andorra la Vella is the highest upper-case missive of the alphabet urban substance inwards Europe.

Restaurant at Night inwards Old Quarter - Principality of Andorra la Vella

Andorra la Vella, Andorra

Nestled inwards a valley alongside beautiful views of mountains surrounding it, Principality of Andorra la Vella is a small-scale town that is slowly to walk. The oldest component of the town, called Barri Antic (Old Quarter), is a expert house to base of operations your explorations of the city.

There is enough of shopping, prissy restaurants, too interesting pedestrian-only winding alleys to explore.

A fundamental gathering place, peculiarly inwards the evening, is Plaça del Poble (the People’s Square) situated behind the church building of Saint Esteve (St Stephen).

Map of Andorra

More near Andorra... The independent of province of Andorra is a rattling small-scale mountainous province inwards the eastern Pyrenees Mountains, betwixt French Republic too Kingdom of Spain alongside a population of near 86,000. Being exclusively near 180 foursquare miles inwards size, you lot tin drive across it inside an hour. Principality of Andorra has a prosperous economic scheme alongside tourism every bit its mainstay, accounting for near 80% of its GDP. Attracted past times Andorra's duty-free condition too past times its summertime too wintertime resorts, an estimated ix 1 G m tourists see annually.

Andorra has pop ski resorts offering the best skiing inwards the Pyrenees mountains. You tin lead maintain 1 of exclusively 3 chief roads inwards Principality of Andorra too discovery roughly of the most dramatic scenery inwards all of the Pyrenees. 

Travel tip... The charabanc companionship Alsina Graells has 8 trips a twenty-four hr menstruation to Principality of Andorra del Vella from Barcelona taking near 4 hours costing €23 one-way, €40 circular trip.

Flag of Andorra

Some history... For 715 years, from 1278 to 1994, Andorrans lived nether a unique co-principality ruled past times the French too the Spanish. Because of this, Principality of Andorra retained its independence. In 1993, this feudal scheme was modified alongside the authorities transformed into a parliamentary democracy. 

Shopping & More Shopping - Principality of Andorra la Vella

Long isolated too impoverished, mountainous Principality of Andorra has achieved substantial prosperity since WWII because of its tourist manufacture too beingness a taxation haven resulting inwards the structure of modern banking offices inwards Principality of Andorra La Vella. Many migrant workers are attracted to the thriving economic scheme alongside its lack of income taxes.

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