There's a lot to Andorra

Almost hidden in the confluence of three valleys deep in the Pyrenees, wedged between France and Spain, the 66,000-population, 180-square-mile Principality of Andorra has become a recreational powerhouse for skiing, hiking, camping and SHOPPING. Merchandise here is duty-free and, for now, also free of high European Union sales taxes. Andorra has been more or less indpendent since the 1200s, when the Spanish archbishop and a rival French prince agreed to share it instead of fighting over it; a home-rule "Council of the Land" took over day-to-day governance in the 1400s. Although Andorra is technically still a "parliamentary co-principality," it joined the United Nations in 1993. Almost hidden in the confluence of three valleys deep in the Pyrenees, wedged between France and Spain, the 66,000-population, 180-square-mile Principality of Andorra has become a recreational powerhouse for skiing, hiking, camping and SHOPPING.

Merchandise here is duty-free and, for now, also free of high European Union sales taxes.

Andorra has been more or less indpendent since the 1200s, when the Spanish archbishop and a rival French prince agreed to share it instead of fighting over it; a home-rule "Council of the Land" took over day-to-day governance in the 1400s. Although Andorra is technically still a "parliamentary co-principality," it joined the United Nations in 1993, has an elected president, and considers itself a sovereign nation.