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Enveitg
Enveitg (; , ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Localization Enveitg is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades. Transport Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg train station is adjacent to the village. The station has the distinction of serving three separate routes (SNCF from Toulouse, RENFE from Barcelona and the Train Jaune from Villefranche-de-Conflent), each with a different track gauges. This requires through passengers and freight to change trains. In addition, before Spain's accession to the European Union and the Schengen Agreement, customs and immigration checks were performed; these are no longer necessary, so the people required for these have been withdrawn, leading to a decline in population and activity. Another station in the commune is Béna Fanès station, on the line to Villefranche-de-Conflent. Population See also *Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales departme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gare De Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg
Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg (Catalan: La Tor de Querol-Enveig) or Latour-de-Carol is a railway station in Enveitg and Latour-de-Carol, Occitanie, France. It is the current terminus of three lines. France's SNCF operates TER (local) services on the Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway (from Toulouse-Matabiau) and on the Ligne de Cerdagne known as ''Train Jaune'' (from Villefranche-de-Conflent, with connections to Perpignan). Spain's Renfe Operadora runs Rodalies de Catalunya trains from L'Hospitalet de Llobregat on the Barcelona commuter rail line R3. SNCF also runs Intercités de Nuit night trains to Paris. Latour-de-Carol is one of the few stations in the world with three different gauges. Others include Montreux railway station, Hendaye station and Jenbach railway station, Madrid Atocha station(when the metro is included), Powell Street and Embarcadero stations in San Francisco, and several stations in Tokyo, mostly on the Toei Shinjuku Line. The line to Toulouse-Matabia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béna Fanès Station
Béna Fanès is a railway station in Enveitg, Occitanie, France. The station is on the Ligne de Cerdagne. The line is a narrow gauge line at 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) and has a third rail pickup at 750 V DC (3rd Rail). The station is served by TER Occitanie (local) trains (known as ''Train Jaune'') operated by the SNCF The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (; abbreviated as SNCF ; French for "National society of French railroads") is France's national state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the country's national rail traffi .... Train services The following services currently call at Béna Fanès: TER Occitanie, accessed 12 May 2022. *local service (TER Occitanie) Latou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ligne De Cerdagne
The ''Ligne de Cerdagne'', usually referred to as ''Le Petit Train Jaune'' ( en, Little Yellow Train, ca, Tren Groc), is a gauge railway that runs from Villefranche-de-Conflent to Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg in the French Pyrenees. Construction started in 1903 and the section to Mont-Louis was completed in 1910, followed by an extension to Latour-de-Carol in 1927. It is long and climbs to at Bolquère-Eyne, the highest railway station in France. The line serves 22 stations, fourteen of which are "request stops" (i.e., the train only stops when specifically requested by passengers). There are 19 tunnels and two bridges, one of which is, unusual for a railway bridge, a suspension bridge. The line is single-track with passing loops at, for example, Mont-Louis and Fontpédrouse-Saint-Thomas-les-Bains. The trains are powered by electricity at 850 volts DC, supplied by third rail. The power is supplied by hydro-electric generators on the River Têt. The maximum speed of the train i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of The Pyrénées-Orientales Department
The Pyrénées-Orientales department is composed of 226 communes. Most of the territory (except for the district of Fenolheda) formed part of the Principality of Catalonia until 1659, and Catalan is still spoken (in addition to French) by a significant minority of the population. The Catalan names of communes are taken from the ''Enciclopèdia catalana'' and are intended for comparison with the official French names: they do not indicate the current or former linguistic status of the commune. List of intercommunalities The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):BANATIC Périmètre des EPCI à fiscalité propre. Accessed 3 July 2020. * |
Dorres
Dorres (; ca, Dorres) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Localisation Dorres is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades. History Various tools and evidence of occupation found in the surroundings prove that the territory of Dorres was already occupied in prehistoric times. Jean Sagnes (dir.), Le pays catalan, t. 2, Pau, Société nouvelle d'éditions régionales, 1985 At the end of the 9th century, Dorres was a property of Sunifred (who died ca. 890), a son of Sunifred, count of Cerdanya. Having become the abbot of the Abbey of Arles-sur-Tech, Sunifred then gave Dorres to his nephew and godson Radulf, himself the son of Wilfred the Hairy and future bishop of Urgell. Later, in the 12th century, is found the name of ''Guillem de Edorres'', supposed to be the local lord. From the 14th century, Dorres becomes part of the crown estate. Being mainly mountain territory, Dorres was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerdanya
Cerdanya () or often La Cerdanya ( la, Ceretani or ''Ceritania''; french: Cerdagne; es, Cerdaña), is a natural comarca and historical region of the eastern Pyrenees divided between France and Spain. Historically it was one of the counties of Catalonia. Cerdanya has a land area of , divided almost evenly between Spain (50.3%) and France (49.7%). In 2001 its population was approximately 26,500, of whom 53% lived on Spanish territory. Its population density is 24 residents per km² (63 per sq. mile). The only urban area in Cerdanya is the cross-border urban area of Puigcerdà-Bourg-Madame, which contained 10,900 inhabitants in 2001. The area enjoys a high annual amount of sunshine – around 3,000 hours per year. For this reason, pioneering large-scale solar power projects have been built in several locations in French Cerdagne, including Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via, the Themis plant near Targassonne, and Mont-Louis Solar Furnace in Mont-Louis. History Antiquity The first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latour-de-Carol
Latour-de-Carol (; ca, La Tor de Querol) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Localization Latour-de-Carol is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades. Transport The village's main claim to fame is as the site of the international railway station, Gare de Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg (). This station is the terminus of three lines, each with different gauges: * the Spanish state operator Renfe's gauge line running north from Barcelona via Ripoll * the French state operator SNCF's gauge line running south from Toulouse via Foix * SNCF's gauge line (known as the ''Yellow Train'') running west from Villefranche-de-Conflent As the French and Spanish tracks are different gauges, no trains run the whole way from Toulouse to Barcelona. Passengers have to change trains, which are however no longer scheduled to offer direct connections. Occasional freight-trains cross the border and are wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puigcerdà
Puigcerdà (; es, Puigcerdá) is the capital of the '' Catalan comarca'' of Cerdanya, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, northern Spain, near the Segre River and on the border with France (it abuts directly onto the French town of Bourg-Madame). History Puigcerdà is located near the site of a Ceretani settlement, which was incorporated into Roman territory. The Roman town was named Julia Libyca. Puigcerdà was founded in 1178 by King Alfonso I of Aragon, Count of Barcelona. In 1178 Puigcerdà replaced Hix as the capital of Cerdanya. Hix is now a village in the commune of Bourg-Madame, in the French part of Cerdagne. In the closing stages of the 1672-1678 Franco-Dutch War, the town was captured by a French army under the duc de Noailles but returned to Spain in the Treaties of Nijmegen. Puigcerdà was unique during the Spanish Civil War in having a democratically elected Anarchist council. The Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway was opened in 1929, crossin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrondissement Of Prades
The arrondissement of Prades is an arrondissement of France in the Pyrénées-Orientales department (Northern Catalonia) in the Occitanie region. It has 123 communes. Its population is 59,828 (2016), and its area is . Composition The communes of the arrondissement of Prades, and their INSEE codes, are: # Les Angles (66004) # Angoustrine-Villeneuve-des-Escaldes (66005) # Ansignan (66006) # Arboussols (66007) # Ayguatébia-Talau (66010) # Baillestavy (66013) # Bélesta (66019) # Bolquère (66020) # Boule-d'Amont (66022) # Bouleternère (66023) # Bourg-Madame (66025) # La Cabanasse (66027) # Campôme (66034) # Campoussy (66035) # Canaveilles (66036) # Caramany (66039) # Casefabre (66040) # Casteil (66043) # Catllar (66045) # Caudiès-de-Conflent (66047) # Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes (66046) # Clara-Villerach (66051) # Codalet (66052) # Conat (66054) # Corbère (66055) # Corbère-les-Cabanes (66056) # Corneilla-de-Conflent (66057) # Corneilla-la-Rivière (66058) # Dorres (66062) # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canton Of Les Pyrénées Catalanes
The canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes is an administrative division of the Pyrénées-Orientales department, in southern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Prades. It consists of the following communes: # Les Angles #Angoustrine-Villeneuve-des-Escaldes #Ayguatébia-Talau #Bolquère #Bourg-Madame #La Cabanasse #Campôme #Canaveilles #Catllar #Caudiès-de-Conflent # Clara-Villerach #Codalet # Conat #Dorres #Égat #Enveitg # Err #Escaro #Estavar # Eus #Eyne #Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via #Fontpédrouse #Fontrabiouse #Formiguères #Jujols #Latour-de-Carol #La Llagonne #Llo # Los Masos #Matemale #Molitg-les-Bains #Mont-Louis #Mosset #Nahuja #Nohèdes #Nyer #Olette # Oreilla #Osséja #Palau-de-Cerdagne #Planès #Porta #Porté-Puymorens # Prades #Puyvalador # Railleu #Réal #Ria-Sirach #Saillagouse #Sainte-Léocadie #Saint-Pierre-dels-Forcats # Sansa # Sauto #Serdinya #Souanyas #Targasonne #Thuès-Entre-Valls # Ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porté-Puymorens
Porté-Puymorens (; ca, Portè) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Porté-Puymorens is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades. Porté-Puymorens station has rail connections to Toulouse, Foix and Latour-de-Carol. Population See also *Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales department The Pyrénées-Orientales department is composed of 226 communes. Most of the territory (except for the district of Fenolheda) formed part of the Principality of Catalonia until 1659, and Catalan is still spoken (in addition to French) by a si ... References Communes of Pyrénées-Orientales {{PyrénéesOrientales-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porta, Pyrénées-Orientales
Porta (; ca, Porta) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Porta is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades. Population See also *Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales department The Pyrénées-Orientales department is composed of 226 communes. Most of the territory (except for the district of Fenolheda) formed part of the Principality of Catalonia until 1659, and Catalan is still spoken (in addition to French) by a si ... External links Official webfrom Porta References Communes of Pyrénées-Orientales {{PyrénéesOrientales-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
