Garraf
Garraf is a small seaside village located between Sitges and Castelldefels, in the Garraf comarca, Catalonia, Spain, surrounded by the area of the Garraf Natural Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Isidro Jabato, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 495 residents
- Description: human settlement in Sitges, Garraf, Penedès, Spain
- Also known as: “Caserío Garraf”
- Postal code: 08871
Places of Interest
Highlights include Garraf railway station and Església de Santa Maria Estrella del Mar.
Garraf railway station
Railway station
Photo: Pere prlpz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Garraf is a Rodalies de Catalunya railway station serving the village of Garraf in Catalonia, Spain. It is extremely close to the beach in Garraf.
Església de Santa Maria Estrella del Mar
Church
Photo: Pere prlpz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Església de Santa Maria Estrella del Mar is a church.
Casetes de la platja de Garraf
Building
Photo: Brian Adamson, CC BY 2.0.
Casetes de la platja de Garraf is a building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Les Botigues de Sitges and Vallcarca.
Les Botigues de Sitges
Neighborhood
Photo: Toni Pérez Padilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Les Botigues de Sitges is a neighborhood, which is situated 3½ km east of Garraf.
Vallcarca
Hamlet
Photo: Xufanc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vallcarca is an abandoned coastal settlement in the Garraf Massif, Catalonia, Spain. It is administered by the Sitges municipality. Although most of the area is surrounded by the Garraf Natural Park, a highly-polluting cement factory near the abandoned railroad station is still active exploiting the nearby quarries for cement production. Vallcarca is situated 4 km west of Garraf.
Parc del Garraf
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Parc del Garraf is in Barcelona of Catalonia. Great views over the sea and of the arid interior lands. The park is well known for its limestone rock landscapes.
Garraf
- Categories: single entity of population and locality
- Location: Sitges, Barcelona, Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
41.25274° or 41° 15′ 10″ northLongitude
1.90247° or 1° 54′ 9″ eastPopulation
495Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)Open location code
8FH37W32+3XOpenStreetMap ID
node 5025041121OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3121557Wikidata ID
Q5523785
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Garraf” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Garraf (Sitges)”
- Basque: “Garraf”
- Bulgarian: “Гараф”
- Catalan: “Garraf”
- Cebuano: “Garraf”
- Dutch: “Garraf (plaats)”
- Dutch: “Garraf”
- Spanish: “Garraf (Sitges)”
- Spanish: “Garraf”
- Ukrainian: “Гарраф (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Гарраф”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Garraf”. Photo: Isidro Jabato, CC BY-SA 3.0.