Figueres
Figueres is a small city in Catalonia, Spain, with a population of 40,000. It is the seat of the Alt Empordà county in the Girona Province and has a wealth of history spanning many centuries that has been preserved and shown in several museums in the area and in the compact Old Town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Figueres–Vilafant railway station and Figueres railway station.
Figueres–Vilafant railway station
Railway station
Photo: Primecoordinator, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Figueres–Vilafant is a railway station serving the city of Figueres in Catalonia, Spain. It is located in the municipality of Vilafant, at about 2 kilometres west from its urban center and 1.5 kilometres from Figueres city centre.
Figueres railway station
Railway station
Figueres is a railway station serving the city of Figueres in Catalonia, Spain. It is on the Barcelona–Cerbère railway and is owned by Adif. The station is served by Rodalies de Catalunya regional line R11 and Girona commuter rail service line RG1.
Sant Ferran Castle
Photo: Asarola, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Sant Ferran Castle is situated on a hill in Figueres, Catalonia at the end of Pujada del Castell. It is a large military fortress built in the eighteenth century under the orders of several military engineers, including Pedro Martín Cermeño and Juan Martín Cermeño.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peralada and Vilafant.
Peralada
Photo: Merx, CC BY-SA 3.0 es.
Peralada is a village in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. It was the home of the Frankish Counts of Peralada who controlled this portion of the Marca Hispanica before becoming part of the lands held by the Count of Barcelona. Figueres is 6.5 km to the west, Roses 13.6 km to the south east.
Vilafant
Village
Photo: Jvinolase, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vilafant is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
Figueres
- Type: Locality with 45,300 residents
- Also known as: “17066”
- Location: Girona, Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.2643° or 42° 15′ 52″ northLongitude
2.9618° or 2° 57′ 42″ eastPopulation
45,300Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)Open location code
8FJ47X76+PPGeoNames ID
6534056
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Figueres” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فيغيراس”
- Armenian: “Ֆիգերաս”
- Belarusian: “Горад Фігерас”
- Bulgarian: “Фигерас”
- Chechen: “Фигерас”
- Chinese: “菲格雷斯”
- French: “Figueras”
- Greek: “Φιγέρες”
- Hebrew: “פיגרס”
- Japanese: “フィゲラス”
- Korean: “피게레스”
- Lithuanian: “Figeresas”
- Persian: “فیگرس”
- Russian: “Фигерас”
- Serbian: “Фигерас”
- Spanish: “Figueras”
- Ukrainian: “Фігерас”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Figueres”. Photo: Francesc Vernet López, CC BY-SA 3.0.