Attraction · Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via · Updated on 1 November 2026.
Odeillo solar furnace is an attraction in Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via, Pyrénées-Orientales. This place has an audio tour of about 2 minutes, in English or Dutch. Within 360 m you'll find a public toilet and a bench.
Audio tour · Odeillo solar furnace
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You're standing at the Odeillo solar furnace, the largest solar furnace in the world. Take a look at that huge curved wall of mirrors. The whole installation is forty-eight metres high and fifty-four metres wide. It looks like a giant satellite dish built into the mountainside.
Read and hear the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.
The nearest pitstop of each kind within 1 km, as the crow flies. No water point, bike pump or food stand within 1 km.
Yes: a public toilet at 200 m.
When you stand at Odeillo solar furnace, the Outdoor Pitstop app tells the story of the place in about 2 minutes, in English or Dutch.
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