I’ve been planning to visit Andorra for a long time because I love mountains and sometimes I really need to escape the city and relax. The synonymous for a town in the mountains that first occurs to my mind is snow, everything white and blue cloudless sky, but my first impression of Andorra la Vella was completely different. Grey sky, dark grey buildings and the rain that didn’t stop for hours, an enormous quantity of shops and people who push you constantly, aren’t something you expect to see when you arrive to this mountain town. Luckily, my opinion and impression of…
The Principality of Andorra, with its 85,000 inhabitants, is the sixth-smallest nation in Europe. Its capital, Andorra la Vella, is situated high in the Pyrenees, between the mountains of Val de Nord and Val del Orient at 1,023 meters above sea level, which makes it the highest European capital. Andorra is annualy visited by 10 million tourists, and due to the fact that it has been isolated for a long time because of its geographical position, the highest percentage of visitors come from Spain, especially Catalonia, France and Portugal. There are several reasons for this high number of visitors: its ski slopes,…
