Casa de la Vall is a historical house in

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. It is the headquarters of the

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. It lies just to the southwest of the

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. It is a heritage property registered in the

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. It was built in 1580 as a manor and tower defense by the Busquets family. In 1702 it was acquired by the Consell de la Terra. The floor of the building is rectangular. The structure has two floors. A tower in the shape of a

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stands in a corner. In the gardens of the building is the sculpture, designed by

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, ''La Danse''. The ground floor is for the administration of justice with the court room. On the first floor, the main floor of the family home, is the Council Chamber, a chapel dedicated to St. Ermengol and the "closet of the seven keys" which are stored historical documents such as the ''

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'' and '' Politar Andorrà''. The cabinet has a lock for each of the parishes of Andorra. The second floor housed, until the beginning of the nineties, the

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, which was dismantled to provide meeting space for Comissió Tripartida, in charge of drafting the

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in 1993. At the door of the house is the

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coat of arms along with the

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. Casa de la Vall is depicted on the Andorran

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Literature

*''Diccionari Enciclopèdic d'Andorra'', Àlvar Valls Oliva, Fundació Crèdit Andorrà, Andorra la Vella 2006,

References

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