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The Pyrenees
Andorra la Vella, Andorra
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From11,910SARper person1.0
LimitedHalal Food: Limited
Mosques: None
Best Time to Visit: June to October for the valleys and the walking; December to March for snow. Late autumn is cold and clear, and the roads are open.
Photos: FrankAndProust (CC0) · Jordiferrer (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Kent Wang from Barcelona, Spain (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Ferran Llorens (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga) (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Travel Information
Time Zone
Europe/Andorra
Currency
EUR
Languages
Catalan, Spanish, French, English
Best Time to Visit
June to October for the valleys and the walking; December to March for snow. Late autumn is cold and clear, and the roads are open.
Visa Information
Andorra is not in the Schengen area but is only reachable through Spain or France, so a Schengen visa is required in practice. A multiple-entry Schengen visa is needed to re-enter Spain afterwards.
Climate
Summer: 24°CWinter: 3°C
Muslim-Friendly Info
Overall Score
1.0/5Limited
Halal Food
Limited
Mosques
No mosques nearby
Prayer Facilities
Andorra has no congregational mosque. Prayer space is arranged at the hotel, and prayer times are listed in the trip booklet. Halal options are limited; the group's tables are chosen with seafood and vegetarian choices, and we say plainly what is halal and what is not.
Andorra is what the Pyrenees look like when a border does not quite close: a country of 468 square kilometres wedged between Catalonia and France, independent since the Paréage of 1278 settled a dispute between a Spanish bishop and a French count by giving each of them half the sovereignty — an arrangement still in force, with the Bishop of Urgell and the President of France as co-princes. Catalan is the official language. The capital sits in a narrow valley with the Casa de la Vall, the sixteenth-century house that served as its parliament, in the old quarter. Beyond the town the country is valleys and villages: Ordino and Canillo with their Romanesque churches, the glacial valley of Madriu-Perafita-Claror on the UNESCO list, and high roads over passes in every direction. Its duty status has made it a shopping destination for generations, with the main avenues of the capital given over to it. For this journey it is also the geography lesson: the range that campaigns crossed and behind which no one settled for long.