communicates directly only through the Coll de Conflent, of 2,150 m.s of altitude). Near the bridge of Bixesarri was farga of Aós , that was in activity until s. XIX. It belonged to the vizcondado one of Castellbò. The entrance to the town becomes by a very wide street with commerce to both sides and plenty of tourist articles and good inns. The houses are constructed with stone and slate tile roofs. From the town, and by a paved way and it costs above we will arrive at the románica church from Sant Pere and Santa Margarita, who formerly had been a castle. In another order of things we can assure that the dependency of Andorra is almost total with the exception of the light, that is provided by urgelense company PEUSA, from year 1982, after the riadas forts. Before it the town lived almost in the Average Age. Good day, when seeing themselves incomunicados, without at least telephone, the neighbors of the town decided to unite their efforts and to constitute the "Associació d'Amics d'Aós of Civís", of which a majority part is Barcelonian lovers of the town and its surroundings. This has allowed the restoration of many town halls, simultaneously that have also served to make a front common before the administrations and to obtain, at least, some subvention with the purpose of recovering the románica church of Aós, consecrated to Sant Pere, like there are saying, and that was back in a ruinous state years ago.
We suppose that caused by the nervousness of the first moment of the riadas ones of the 82, the inhabitants of the town lived at those moments a tragicómica situation. Incomunicados as they were, saw as a helicopter of the Civil Guard approached, who, instead of landing, threw slips of paper in which it was reflxed mng yes "need something telephone"... The town did not have telephone! On the other hand, the collection of sweepings, the cleaning of the highway and other services are provided by the Comú de Sant Julià de Lòria.
Although the administrative forgetfulness has been clear and evident, the push of the Association has caused that the town conserves all the enchantment of a village of high mountain, with the houses of stone and lampposts of forge, paid of the pocket of the neighbors. In addition the church saw recovered its graceful vestibule, simultaneously that consolidated the building. All this thanks to a project of restoration that the Association ordered and to a pair of subventions of the Generalitat de Catalunya. |
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