Andorra
Sand Origin
Close to church Sant Cerni de Nagol, outside Sant Julià de Lòria
Note from Collector: “The sand is mixed with probable shale and some fragments of small rocks. It’s from the Silurian period. Near the collection point is a beautiful Romanic church called Sant Cerni de Nagol. In Andorra we have mainly Paleozoic rocks (a bit metamorphosed: schists, phyllites, gneiss…), a big granite, and then quaternary deposits: moraines, tills… “
Random Sand Fact
What you see at The Miniature Museum in Andorra is not sand but single grains of sand carved into sculptures.
You must look through microscopes to see the displayed masterpieces nearly invisible to the eye. A bottle carved of a single grain of sand is but one example.
Want to be amazed at micro art, even if not in Andorra? Head to the nearest sandy place with a magnifying glass or your smartphone to peek into nature’s own art exhibition. Not one grain is the other exactly alike.
P.S. To wear Nature’s miniature art, magnified grains of sand, find your piece in the GRAINS collection!
