Portbou
Portbou is in Costa Brava and is a small coastal town in northern Catalonia, at the end of the Costa Brava and just south of the French border. Wedged between steep Pyrenean slopes and a sheltered bay, it combines rugged scenery with a pebbly urban beach and a compact port.Places of Interest
Highlights include Portbou railway station and Cerbère station.
Portbou railway station
Railway station
Photo: Mr H., CC BY-SA 2.5.
Portbou is a railway station serving Portbou in Catalonia, Spain. It is on the Barcelona–Cerbère railway and the Narbonne–Portbou railway. The station is owned by Adif and is served by Rodalies de Catalunya regional line R11 and Girona commuter rail service line RG1 and TER Occitanie trains also serve the station.
Cerbère station
Railway station
Photo: Pierre Phaneuf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cerbère station is the railway station serving the border town Cerbère, Pyrénées-Orientales department, southern France. It is connected to the Portbou railway station in Spain by the Balitres tunnel, which uses standard gauge track for trains continuing…
Coll dels Belitres
Mountain saddle
Photo: Icmontreal, CC BY 2.5.
Coll dels Belitres is a mountain saddle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cerbère and Colera.
Cerbère
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Cerbère is a town of 1,400 people in Pyrénées-Orientales in France. Cerbère is an important centre for tourism, often linked with undersea diving. For rail travellers on the regional route between France and Spain, Cerbère is important because almost all trains end or start here or in the neighbouring Spanish border station Portbou.
Colera
Photo: cecilia rey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Colera is a small coastal village on the northern Costa Brava, in the comarca of Alt Empordà, between Portbou and Llançà near the French border. Sheltered in a quiet bay where the Albera mountains meet the Mediterranean, it offers uncrowded pebble beaches, clear waters and a laid‑back atmosphere even in high season.
Portbou
- Type: Locality with 1,300 residents
- Also known as: “17138”
- Location: Girona, Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.4261° or 42° 25′ 34″ northLongitude
3.16° or 3° 9′ 36″ eastPopulation
1,300Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)Open location code
8FJ5C5G5+CXGeoNames ID
6534108
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Portbou” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بورتبو”
- Armenian: “Պորտբոու”
- Chinese: “波尔特沃”
- Japanese: “ポルトボウ”
- Kazakh: “Портбоу”
- Persian: “پرتبو”
- Russian: “Портбоу”
- Ukrainian: “Порбоу”
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