Andorra Approves Urgent Tender to Restore Historic Farga Rossell Ironworks

The Andorran government has approved an urgent national tender for the first phase of rehabilitation works at Farga Rossell in La Massana, aiming to reopen the historic ironworking complex to visitors as soon as possible.

The Council of Ministers authorised the open procedure on Wednesday, with works focusing on the most degraded elements to ensure safety and halt further deterioration. The project, prepared by architects Pau Iglesias and Jacint Gil, draws from a 2025 diagnostic report. The budget is estimated at €310,000, and execution is expected to take six months from the start of works. An emergency intervention in mid-2026 had already dismantled a wooden mechanism at risk of collapse.

Government spokesperson Guillem Casal said the phase emphasises safety and conservation to protect the main structures for the long term.

In other heritage actions, the government declared two medieval mural fragments—"El bes de Judes" and "La flagel·lació"—from the Sant Esteve church in Andorra la Vella as movable cultural assets of interest. Dating from 1220-1230 and held at Museu Espai Columba, they now receive specific legal protection in the first section of the General Inventory of Cultural Heritage.

The executive also added Cal Piedro in Ransol, Canillo parish, to the inventory's second section as an inventoried asset. The rural house, threshing floor and two nearby wells—likely built from the late 18th to early 19th century—preserve their original structure and reflect pre-industrial Andorran rural architecture, history and ethnology.