Population (2007) 1,992 Area 29.6 km² | Region Occitanie Time zone CET (UTC+1) Local time Tuesday 3:42 AM | |
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Weather -2°C, Wind N at 13 km/h, 100% Humidity Points of interest Altiservice Font‑Romeu Pyrénées, Ozone 3, Télésiège Roc de la Calme, Col del Pam, Casino municipal | ||
Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via (Catalan: Font-romeu, Odelló i Vià), or Odeillo, is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales and Cerdagne near the Spanish border in the south of France.
Contents
- Map of 66120 Font Romeu Odeillo Via France
- Localization
- Transportation
- Toponymy
- History
- Solar power
- References
Map of 66120 Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via, France
It also is one of the oldest ski resorts in France and the oldest in the Pyrenees.
Localization
Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via is located in the canton of Saillagouse and in the arrondissement of Prades.
Transportation
Toponymy
The names of Odeillo and Via appear in 839 as parrochia Hodellone et parrochia Avizano.
The name of Font-Romeu means in Catalan : fountain of the pilgrim.
History
Odeillo and Via are both mentioned for the first time in 839 among the places paying a fee to La Seu d'Urgell church. Nevertheless, Odeillo was at the time part of the County of Cerdanya, while Via was a property of the Urg family.
On July 15th of 1035, Wifred II, Count of Cerdanya gives Odeillo to the Abbey of Saint-Martin-du-Canigou, where he retires himself a short time before his death. The Abbey of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa also owned a few allods in Odeillo, as recognized by a papal bull from Sergius IV in 1011.
Via remains a property of the Urg family until the 13th century. It is then bought by Peter of Fenouillet, viscount of Fenouillet and then viscount of Ille.
A chapel is mentioned for the first time in Font-Romeu in 1525, on the territory of Odeillo. It already hosts a statue of the Virgin Mary from the 13th century, and a hermitage is built from 1693 to receive the pilgrims.
Odeillo and Via both become communes in 1790. The commune of Via is abolished and included into Odeillo on July 10 of 1822.
In 1881, a criminal fire causes the burning of 267 hectares in the forest of La Calme, near the Our Lady of Font-Romeu hermitage.
Solar power
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