The District office. The first post office

At the end of the nineteenth century, letters arriving from La Seu d’Urgell or from l’Hospitalet were left at the Cal Calones Hostel in Andorra la Vella, which acted as a post office under the supervision of Tomàs Rossell i Moles.

One witness from the period describes the office in a corner of the dining room with the hostel’s glass window full of unclaimed letters, a fact that highlights the limitations and scope of the service in the Valleys.

At the beginning of the 20th century and before the officialization of the postal service in the Andorran Valleys, the French post offices moved their services to Jacint Rossell’s shop located in Ca l’Adela next door to the Hostal Calones, which continued to provide the Spanish postal service.