Anyós, a farming village above 1,300 m

Anyós is the La Massana village you understand best from below. From the road you spot a small church clinging to a hill and wonder how you get up there. It’s a few minutes by car, and the reason to bother is waiting at the top, on the terrace of Sant Cristòfol.

A quiet farming village

The Comú de La Massana describes Anyós as a traditional farming village, very quiet, rising above 1,300 m. The Comú’s tourism website sums it up as architecture, art and the outdoors with a rural spirit. Don’t expect shops or a museum, because there aren’t any. What you get is calm and a slope facing the valley, with meadows and old stone barns.

It sits between Sispony and L’Aldosa, linked to the latter by the CS-335. From La Massana it’s a short drive up.

Sant Cristòfol, the reason to go

The church of Sant Cristòfol d’Anyós is 12th century and was enlarged in the 16th. Andorra Turisme says the hilltop commands the approach to the valley from the Escaldes-Engordany side, with Sispony, La Massana and even Ordino in view. Of the viewpoints in the parish you can drive to, I’d put this one first.

Its Romanesque wall paintings were lost in the 20th century, but inside there are still Gothic and 16th-century paintings devoted to St Christopher. museus.ad adds that it’s a favourite church for weddings, and that every 10 July vehicles are blessed there, since the saint is the patron of motorists. The festival has been declared of cultural interest.

On foot or on horseback along the Solà

The Anyós hillside is a web of old paths. Andorra Turisme suggests a walk starting at km 1 of the CS-335, between Anyós and L’Aldosa, climbing the Cortals path and the Solà track, crossing woodland and the Aspra stream and reaching the Estall col. It’s under 8 km, about 4 hours and moderate, and the return drops down to L’Aldosa along the Gonarda road.

If you’d rather ride, L’Aldosa riding club offers a two-hour outing up the Solà path, with a long gallop of over a kilometre, before returning by way of the old barns. It’s for intermediate riders. You’ll find it with the other options in horse riding in Andorra.

By bike, up to Beixalís

For road cyclists, Anyós is the opening stretch of a proper climb. Andorra Turisme’s route 9 starts at the roundabout where the CS-310 leaves the CG-3, at 1,201 m, passes Sant Cristòfol and ends at the Beixalís col, 1,795 m. That’s 8.7 km and 594 m of ascent at an average 6.8%, graded first category. Beixalís was one of the climbs on the La Vuelta stage that started and finished in Andorra la Vella on 25 August 2026, and there are more ideas in road cycling in Andorra.

Getting there

By car, from La Massana. Without one, you need two buses, a national line into La Massana (L5 or L6) and then the parish M3 up to Anyós, according to museus.ad.