MAYTE IS DISCOVERING AUVINYÀ IN SANT JULIÀ DE LÒRIA

Today, The Grandma has received wonderful news from Mayte, who has been visiting Auvinyà, an amazing Andorran village.

Auvinyà, also named Aubinyà and Albinyà in the past, is a village in Andorra, in the parish of Sant Julià de Lòria.

There is the Sant Romà d'Aubinyà Church in the township.

Sant Julià de Lòria is one of the parishes of Andorra, in the far south of the country. It is also the name of the main town of the parish, which at 908 m is the lowest settlement in Andorra. Other settlements in the parish include Bixessarri, Aixàs, Aixovall, Certers, Llumeneres, Nagol, Aixirivall, Auvinyà, Juberri, Fontaneda, and Canòlic. It is bordered by Andorra la Vella in the north, Escaldes-Engordany in the northeast and Catalonia in the south, east, west, northwest, southwest and southeast.

Andorra consists of seven communities known as parishes, in Catalan parròquies. Until relatively recently, it had only six parishes; the seventh, Escaldes-Engordany, was created in 1978.

Andorra la Vella is the capital of Andorra. Some parishes have a further territorial subdivision; Ordino, La Massana and Sant Julià de Lòria are subdivided into quarts (quarters), while Canillo is subdivided into 10 veïnats (neighbourhoods). Those mostly coincide with villages, which are found in all parishes.

Each parish has its own elected mayor who is the nominal head of the local government known as a comú in Catalan.

More information: Fem Turisme

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