Portbou
Portbou is a town in the Alt Empordà county, in the Province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. It has a population of 1082 people. Portbou is located near the French border in the Costa Brava region, and frequently serves as a dropping off point for SNCF trains coming from Cerbère in France.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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
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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: David.gaya, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Colera is in Costa Brava. It has very beautiful beaches, such as Garbet, Borró, Assutzenes, Portes, Morts, Goixa, Carbassó and Cala Rovellada.
Portbou
- Type: Locality with 1,300 residents
- Also known as: “17138”
- Location: Girona, Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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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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