Llívia is a town of Cerdagne, located in the Catalan comarca of Baixa Cerdanya, province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain, that forms a Spanish exclave surrounded by French territory (Pyrénées-Orientales département).
Llívia, which was the site of an Iberian oppidum commanding the region and was named Julia Libica by the Romans, was the ancient capital of Cerdagne in Antiquity, before being replaced by Hix (commune of Bourg-Madame , France) in the early Middle Ages.
The Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) ceded the comarques of Roussillon, Conflent, Capcir, Vallespir, and Cerdagne (northern half of it) to the French crown. Llívia did not become part of the French kingdom as the treaty stipulated that only villages were to be ceded to France, and Llívia was considered a city and not a village due to its status as the ancient capital of Cerdagne.
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