Aransa is a Catalan

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

 ski resort

Ski resort

A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing and other winter sports. In Europe a ski resort is a town or village in a ski area - a mountainous area, where there are ski trails and supporting services such as hotels and other accommodation, restaurants, equipment rental and a ski lift system...

 located in Arànser, in the municipallity of Lles de Cerdanya

Lles de Cerdanya

Lles de Cerdanya is a village in the comarca of Cerdanya, province of Lleida, Catalonia, north-eastern Spain. It is located on the border with Andorra and with the other Spanish comarca of Alt Urgell.It is home to two ski resorts, that of Lles and of Aransa....

, opened in 1986.

Surrounded by the mountains of Tossa Plana de Lles (2916 m) and Pic de Sirvent (2836 m), is in the basin where the Lakes of the Pera pitch to Segre River

Segre River

The Segre is a river tributary to the Ebro with a basin comprising territories across three states: France, Andorra and Spain....

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There are 32 km of trails for Cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...

 located from 1.850m to 2.150 m elevations.

• Green circuit: 5 km
• Blue circuit: 7,5 km
• Red circuit: 10 km
• Black circuit: 5 km
• Ride circuit: 8 km

The red circuit, el Mirador, reaches the highest point with an excellent view on the comarques

Comarques of Catalonia

This is a list of the comarques of Catalonia . A comarca is roughly equivalent to a US "county" or a UK "district". However, in the context of Catalonia, the term "county" can be a bit misleading, because in medieval Catalonia, the most important rulers were counts, notably the Counts of Barcelona...

of Alt Urgell

Alt Urgell

Alt Urgell is a comarca in Catalonia, Spain, a modern representation of part of the historic County of Urgell , seat of the Counts of Urgell and the historic region of Urgellet.- Municipalities :...

 and Cerdanya

Cerdanya

Cerdanya is a natural comarca and historical region of the eastern Pyrenees divided between France and Spain. Historically it has been one of the counties of Catalonia....

, and over the Cadí Range.