Ávila

Ávila is a city in in northern Spain, 120 km northwest of Madrid. Its old town is spectacularly ringed by ancient walls, and has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. In 2023 the population was 58,500.
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  • Type: City with 58,700 residents
  • Description: municipality in Castile and León, Spain
  • Also known as: “05019”, “Avila”, and “Óblila”
  • Historically known as: “Abela”, “Abila”, “Abula”, “Aebura”, “Albicella”, “Avela”, and “Obila”
Photo: Choniron, CC BY-SA 3.0 es.
Photo: Lestaire, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Walls of Ávila and Ávila Cathedral.

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The , completed between the 11th and 14th centuries, are the defensive , , and its principal historic feature. Forming a complete circuit around the old town, they are one of the country's most complete and best-preserved medieval fortifications and among the most notable examples in .

Church
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The Cathedral of the Saviour is a Catholic church in Ávila in the south of Old Castile, . It was built in the late Romanesque and Gothic architectural traditions.

Railway station
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is the central railway station of Ávila, Spain. Commonly referred locally as the RENFE station, the station is part of Adif and high-speed rail systems.

Ávila

Latitude
40.6565° or 40° 39′ 23″ north
Longitude
-4.7002° or 4° 42′ 1″ west
Population
58,700
Elevation
1,176 metres (3,858 feet)
Open location code
8CGQM74X+HW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 626639326
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6355632
Wiki­data ID
Q15688
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Ávila” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “آبلة”
  • Arabic: “آبله”
  • Arabic: “افيلا”
  • Aragonese: “Ávila”
  • Armenian: “Ավիլա”
  • Asturian: “Ávila”
  • Azerbaijani: “Avila”
  • Basque: “Ávila”
  • Belarusian: “Авіла”
  • Belarusian: “Авіля”
  • Belarusian: “Горад Авіла”
  • Bengali: “এভিলা”
  • Breton: “Ávila”
  • Bulgarian: “Авила”
  • Burmese: “အာ့ဗီလာမြို့ ၊ စပိန်”
  • Catalan: “Àvila”
  • Cebuano: “Ávila (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Ávila”
  • Chinese: “阿維拉”
  • Chinese: “阿维拉”
  • Croatian: “Ávila”
  • Czech: “Ávila”
  • Danish: “Ávila”
  • Dutch: “Avila (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Avila”
  • Dutch: “Ávila”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اڤيلا”
  • Esperanto: “Avilo”
  • Estonian: “Ávila”
  • Extremaduran: “Ávila”
  • Finnish: “Ávila”
  • French: “Avila”
  • French: “Ávila”
  • Galician: “Ávila”
  • Georgian: “ავილა”
  • German: “Avila”
  • German: “Ávila”
  • Greek: “Άβιλα”
  • Gujarati: “એવીલા”
  • Hebrew: “אווילה”
  • Hindi: “आवीला, स्पेन”
  • Hindi: “आवीला”
  • Hungarian: “Ávila”
  • Icelandic: “Ávila”
  • Ido: “Ávila”
  • Indonesian: “Ávila”
  • Interlingua: “Ávila”
  • Interlingue: “Ávila”
  • Irish: “Ávila”
  • Italian: “Avila”
  • Italian: “Ávila”
  • Japanese: “アビラ”
  • Kannada: “ಆವಿಲಾ”
  • Korean: “아빌라”
  • Ladin: “Ávila”
  • Ladino: “Avila”
  • Latin: “Abula”
  • Latvian: “Avila”
  • Lithuanian: “Avila”
  • Lombard: “Avila”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ávila”
  • Macedonian: “Авила”
  • Malagasy: “Ávila”
  • Malay: “Ávila, Sepanyol”
  • Malay: “Ávila, Spain”
  • Maltese: “Avila”
  • Maltese: “Ávila”
  • Marathi: “एव्हिला”
  • Mingrelian: “ავილა”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ávila”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ávila”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ávila”
  • Norwegian: “Ávila”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ávila”
  • Ossetian: “Авилæ”
  • Pampanga: “Ávila”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਵੀਲਾ, ਸਪੇਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਵੀਲਾ”
  • Persian: “آبیلا”
  • Piemontese: “Avila”
  • Polish: “Ávila”
  • Portuguese: “Ávila”
  • Quechua: “Avila”
  • Romanian: “Ávila”
  • Russian: “Авила”
  • Scots: “Ávila”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ávila”
  • Serbian: “Авила”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ávila”
  • Silesian: “Ávila”
  • Sinhala: “ආවිලා”
  • Slovak: “Ávila”
  • Slovenian: “Ávila”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آبیلا”
  • Spanish: “Avila”
  • Spanish: “Ávila”
  • Swedish: “Ávila (kommun)”
  • Swedish: “Ávila”
  • Tamil: “அவிலா, எசுப்பானியா”
  • Tamil: “அவிலா”
  • Tatar: “Авила”
  • Telugu: “అవిలా”
  • Thai: “อาบิลา”
  • Turkish: “Ávila”
  • Ukrainian: “Авіла”
  • Urdu: “آبیلا، ہسپانیہ”
  • Urdu: “آبیلا”
  • Venetian: “Ávila”
  • Vietnamese: “Ávila”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ávila”
  • Welsh: “Ávila”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿维拉”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿維拉”
  • “Ávila”

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