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Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via (French pronunciation: [fɔ̃ ʁɔmø ɔdɛjo vja] ooui-php-1; Catalan: Font-romeu, Odelló i Vià), or simply Odeillo, is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales and Cerdagne near the Spanish border in the south of France.cite-ref-3[3] It comprises the villages of Odeillo and Via, as well as Font-Romeu, one of the oldest ski resorts in France and the oldest in the Pyrenees.

• Geography

• Localization

• Transportation

• Toponymy

• History

• Demography

• Solar power

• See also

• References

• External links

Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades. It is bordered by the communes of Angoustrine-Villeneuve-des-Escaldes, Targasonne, Égat, Estavar, Saillagouse, Eyne and Bolquère.

Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via station is served by the Yellow Train line, a railway which runs from Villefranche-de-Conflent to Latour-de-Carol.

The names of Odeillo and Via appear in 839 as parrochia Hodellone et parrochia Avizano.cite-ref-sagnes-4-0[4]

The name Font-Romeu means in Catalan "fountain of the pilgrim".cite-ref-sagnes-4-1[4]

Odeillo and Via were 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.cite-ref-sagnes-4-2[4]

On 15 July 1035, Wifred II, Count of Cerdanya, gave Odeillo to the Abbey of Saint-Martin-du-Canigou, where he retired 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.cite-ref-sagnes-4-3[4]

Via remained a property of the Urg family until the 13th century. It was then bought by Peter of Fenouillet, viscount of Fenouillet and then viscount of Ille.cite-ref-sagnes-4-4[4]

A chapel was mentioned for the first time in Font-Romeu in 1525, on the territory of Odeillo. It already hosted a statue of the Virgin Mary from the 13th century, and a hermitage was built from 1693 to receive the pilgrims.cite-ref-sagnes-4-5[4]

Odeillo and Via both became communes in 1790. The commune of Via was abolished and included into Odeillo on 10 July 1822.cite-ref-5[5]

In 1881, a wildfire caused by arson spread throughout 267 hectares of the forest of La Calme in the north of the commune.cite-ref-6[6]

• The world's largest solar furnace in Odeillo can reach temperatures of 3,500 °C (6,330 °F).

• THEMIS Solar Power R&D center is 3 km (1.9 mi) away in the village of Targasonne.

• Arboretum de Font-Romeu

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales department

cite-note-11. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.

cite-note-popref2022-22. "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.

cite-note-33. ↑ INSEE commune file

cite-note-sagnes-44. ↑ (in French) Jean Sagnes (dir.), Le pays catalan, t. 2, Pau, Société nouvelle d'éditions régionales, 1985

cite-note-55. ↑ Jean-Pierre Pélissier, Paroisses et communes de France: dictionnaire d'histoire administrative et démographique, vol. 66 : Pyrénées-Orientales, Paris, CNRS, 1986

cite-note-66. ↑ Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Incendies de forêts en 1881, 13 February 2014

cite-note-pophist-73. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

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