Vilafant

Vilafant is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, , , Spain.
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  • Type: Village with 1,450 residents
  • Description: municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
  • Also known as: “17221”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Figueres–Vilafant railway station and Sant Ferran Castle.

Railway station
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Figueres–Vilafant is a railway station serving the city of in , . 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.

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The is situated on a hill in , 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.

Railway station
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Figueres is a railway station serving the city of in , . 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Figueres and Avinyonet de Puigventós.

Photo: Francesc Vernet López, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small city in , , with a population of 40,000. It is the seat of the Alt Empordà county in the 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.

Village
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is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, , , Spain.

Village
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is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, , , Spain. is situated 3½ km south of Vilafant.

Vilafant

Latitude
42.2515° or 42° 15′ 6″ north
Longitude
2.9418° or 2° 56′ 31″ east
Population
1,450
Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)
Open location code
8FJ47W2R+JP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1460478326
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6534169
Wiki­data ID
Q12153
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Waray—“Vilafant” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Vilafant”
  • Arabic: “فيلافانت”
  • Aragonese: “Vilafant”
  • Armenian: “Վիլաֆան”
  • Asturian: “Vilafant”
  • Basque: “Vilafant”
  • Catalan: “Vilafant”
  • Cebuano: “Vilafant”
  • Chechen: “Вилафан”
  • Chinese: “比拉凡”
  • Chinese: “比拉凡特”
  • Dutch: “Vilafant”
  • Esperanto: “Vilafant”
  • French: “Vilafant”
  • Galician: “Vilafant”
  • Georgian: “ვილაფანი”
  • German: “Vilafant”
  • Hungarian: “Vilafant”
  • Interlingua: “Vilafant”
  • Irish: “Vilafant”
  • Italian: “Vilafant”
  • Japanese: “ビラファント”
  • Kazakh: “Вилафан”
  • Ladin: “Vilafant”
  • Latin: “Vilafant”
  • Lombard: “Vilafant”
  • Malay: “Vilafant”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Vilafant”
  • Polish: “Vilafant”
  • Portuguese: “Vilafant”
  • Romanian: “Vilafant”
  • Russian: “Вилафан”
  • Spanish: “Vilafan”
  • Spanish: “Vilafant”
  • Swedish: “Vilafant”
  • Tahitian: “Vilafant”
  • Tatar: “Вилафан”
  • Tumbuka: “Vilafant”
  • Turkish: “Vilafant”
  • Ukrainian: “Білафан”
  • Urdu: “بییافانت”
  • Uzbek: “Vilafant”
  • Venetian: “Vilafant”
  • Vietnamese: “Vilafant”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vilafant”

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