Andorra la Vella

Capital of the principality of Andorra; population (2003 est) 23,400. It is in the Gran Valira valley, on the eastern slopes of the Pic d'Enclar, in the Pyrenees, at 1,029 m/3,376 ft. It is the principality's only city and its chief centre of trade, commerce, and manufacturing. Its main sources of income are tourism, duty-free international trade, and banking; manufacturing includes woollen products, tobacco processing, textiles, furniture, processed food, and distilled beverages.

It is a busy shopping centre, selling duty-free luxury goods imported from Europe and Asia to French and Spanish shoppers and to tourists. It is also developing offshore financial services. The legislative General Council of the Valleys meets in a 16th-century house called the Casa de la Vall (1580). The suburb of Escalades-Engordany has the 11th-century Romanesque church of Sant Miquel d'Engolasters, and the thermal baths of Caldea (opened in 1994).