Show old spanish town in france one of the striking anomalies in geography says the national geographic society is that a small portion of spain is entirely surrounded by france to put it another way there is a spanish town liivia Ll ivia in france it happened this way when th the present boundary between the two countries was established nearly years ago it was provided that france should have the villages of the old pyrenees Pyre nees province of dagne llivia alivia the capital of dagne was no village however but a town by charter so spain under the letter of the treaty retained it together with a fringe of land with the understanding that it should never be fortified by the spaniards today a mile long neutral road cutting across the intervening french territory ties alivia llivia to the rest of spain |