Os de Civís () is a village in the central

Pyrenees The Pyrenees (; es, Pirineos ; french: Pyrénées ; ca, Pirineu ; eu, Pirinioak ; oc, Pirenèus ; an, Pirineus) is a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. It extends nearly from its union with the Cantabrian Mountains to ...

mountains, in the municipality of

Les Valls de Valira Les Valls de Valira is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of the Alt Urgell in Catalonia, that surrounds the south and south-west border of Andorra. It includes a small exclave An enclave is a territory (or a small territory apart of a larger o ...

Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the nort ...

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, and is located to the west of

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, near the villages of

Aixàs Aixàs () is a village in south-west Andorra. It belongs to the parish of Sant Julià de Lòria. To its west are Civís and Os de Civís in Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (m ...

and

Bixessarri Bixessarri () is a village in Andorra, located in the parish of Sant Julià de Lòria Sant Julià de Lòria () is one of the parishes of Andorra, in the far south of that country. It is also the name of the main town of the parish, which at 908&n ...

Civís Civís is a village in the municipality of Les Valls de Valira, in Catalonia, Spain, located to the west of Aixàs and Bixessarri (Andorra) and near Os de Civís Os de Civís () is a village in the central Pyrenees mountains, in the municipa ...

is the nearest Spanish village. It is the most populated village in the municipality. Os de Civís is very close to the Spain–Andorra border, and is unique in being the only Spanish village that can be reached by vehicle only by going through

. The border crossing is unique in Andorra in that there is no border control: Andorra is in neither the Schengen Area nor the

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, and thus operates full border and customs checks at all other border crossings with Spain and France, but the crossing to Os de Civís is unpoliced as the road leads solely to the village, with no access to anywhere else in Spain. The village has a number of medieval buildings, including a Romanesque church.

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Populated places in the Province of Lleida {{Lleida-geo-stub