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Meritxell

Meritxell is a village in Andorra, located in the parish of Canillo in the north of the country near the French border.

Meritxell
Meritxell · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Meritxell

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Església de Sant Joan de Caselles

    Església de Sant Joan de Caselles is a church located in Canillo, Andorra. It is a heritage property registered in the Cultural Heritage of Andorra, and was built in the 11–12th century.

    2.3 km · church in Canillo, Andorra · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Our Lady of Meritxell

    Our Lady of Meritxell is an Andorran Catholic statue depicting an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Our Lady of Meritxell is the patron saint of Andorra.

    0 m · Andorran Roman Catholic statue of a Virgin Mary apparition · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Església de Sant Romà de les Bons

    Església de Sant Romà de les Bons is a church located in Les Bons, Encamp, Andorra. Consecrated in 1164, the church uses Romanesque and Lombard architecture.

    1.7 km · church building in Encamp, Andorra · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Església de la Santa Creu de Canillo

    Església de la Santa Creu de Canillo is a small church located in Canillo, Andorra. It is a heritage property registered in the Cultural Heritage of Andorra.

    1.5 km · church building in Canillo, Andorra · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    National Automobile Museum

    The National Automobile Museum is an automobile museum in Encamp, Andorra.

    2.6 km · automobile museum in Encamp, Andorra · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Església de Sant Serni de Canillo

    The Church of Sant Serni de Canillo is a church located in Canillo, Andorra, and was constructed in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is a heritage property registered in the Cultural Heritage of Andorra.

    1.6 km · church building in Canillo, Andorra · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Església de Sant Miquel de Prats

    Església de Sant Miquel de Prats is a church located in Prats, Canillo Parish, Andorra. It is a heritage property registered in the Cultural Heritage of Andorra.

    700 m · church building in Canillo, Andorra · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Casa Cristo

    Casa Cristo is a house located in Encamp, Andorra. It is a heritage property registered in the Cultural Heritage of Andorra.

    2.2 km · house in Encamp, Andorra · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Meritxell

Airports
Girona-Costa Brava (GRO), 120 km · Toulouse-Blagnac (TLS), 121 km · Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat (BCN), 145 km
  • Barcelona → Meritxell
    138 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · €20–28
  • Girona → Meritxell
    120 km · quickest by road, 4h 4m · €22–31
  • Reus → Meritxell
    160 km · quickest by road, 4h 2m · €20–28
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Meritxell

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Meritxell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundFunibus takes passengers around Encamp and connect to the Funicamp gondola.

From Wikivoyage: Encamp, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    623 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    679 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    931 km
  4. 04
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    1,012 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    1,070 km

If you know how people move in Meritxell – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Meritxell