Editing Puigcerdà (section)

== History ==
Puigcerdà is located near the site of a [[Ceretani]] settlement, which was incorporated into Roman territory. The Roman town was named Julia Libyca (modern day [[Llívia]]).

Puigcerdà was founded in 1178 by King [[Alfonso I of Aragon]], Count of Barcelona. In 1178 Puigcerdà replaced [[Hix, Cerdanya|Hix]] as the capital of [[Cerdanya]]. Hix is now a village in the [[commune in France|commune]] of [[Bourg-Madame]], in the [[French Cerdagne|French part of Cerdanya]].

In the closing stages of the 1672–1678 [[Franco-Dutch War]], the town was captured by a French army under the [[Anne_Jules_de_Noailles|duc de Noailles]] but returned to Spain in the [[Treaties of Nijmegen]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=De Périni |first1=Hardÿ |title=Batailles françaises, Volume V |date=1896 |publisher=Ernest Flammarion, Paris|page=215}}</ref> 

Puigcerdà was unique during the [[Spanish Civil War]] in having a democratically elected [[Anarchist]] council.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-16 |title=Over the border…Puigcerdà |url=https://anglophone-direct.com/puigcerda/ |access-date=2024-12-31 |website=P-O Life |language=en-GB}}</ref>

The [[Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway]] was opened in 1929, crossing the [[Pyrenees]] to France.