Meritxell
Sign in to saveMeritxell () is a village in Andorra, located in the parish of Canillo in the north of the country near the French border. Our Lady of Meritxell is the patroness saint of Andorra.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Meritxell
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Andorra, Santuari nou de Meritxell (5) 37-WLM.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Basilica of Our Lady of Meritxell
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- Andorra
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- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
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- Location in Andorra
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Parish
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Canillo
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2012
- Settlement.population_total
- 75
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Andorra
- Located in
- Canillo
- Population
- 69
- Elevation
- 2209
- Time zone
- Central European Time
- Image
- Santuari vell de Meritxell.jpg
- Patron saint
- Our Lady of Meritxell
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- Meritxell (village)
- postal code
- AD100
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Meritxell () is a village in Andorra, located in the parish of Canillo in the north of the country near the French border. Our Lady of Meritxell is the patroness saint of Andorra.
In the village is the Basilica of Our Lady of Meritxell, which replaces the original Romanesque style sanctuary burnt down in a fire in 1972. It houses a replica of the Romanesque carving of the Virgin that was also destroyed in the fire.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meritxell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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