Two Quaint Republics, Andorra and San Marino #265616

I recall a miniature republic lost in a corner of the Pyrenees, said Napoleon Bonaparte. Yet Andorra exists as a fact of history. Few modern travellers on the great thoroughfare routes of Spain and France pause to seek the tiny strong hold Of liberty, entrenched amidst a rampart of rocks and encircling mountains. Situated in a nook Of the southern Slopes of the Pyrenees, with an area of one hundred and fifty square miles, it has been an independent state since the latter part of the Eighth Century.