Blanes
Blanes is an old fishing town that has become an important beach destination on the Costa Brava and the province of Girona. In 2018 it had around 39,000 inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 41,600 residents
- Description: town and municipality in the comarca of Selva in Girona, Catalonia, Spain
- Postal code: 17300
- Neighbors: Lloret de Mar and Malgrat de Mar
Photo: Manuel pino, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castell de Sant Joan and Blanes station.
Biblioteca Comarcal de Blanes
Library
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.1 es.
Biblioteca Comarcal de Blanes is a library.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lloret de Mar and Malgrat de Mar.
Lloret de Mar
Photo: Adville, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lloret del Mar is a resort city on the Costa Brava, Spain, northeast of Barcelona. Lloret is famed for its "young crowd", late nightlife, and the beach.
Malgrat de Mar
Photo: Lidiabart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Malgrat de Mar is a seaside town on Spain's Costa del Maresme. It is popular with visitors from northern Europe who enjoy the hotels and the Mediterranean. Malgrat is also heavily visited in October when the youth soccer competition Costa Brava Cup is on.
Palafolls
Village
Photo: Aracelifoto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Palafolls is a municipality in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, eastern Spain. Palafolls is situated 3½ km west of Blanes.
Blanes
- Categories: municipality of Catalonia and locality
- Location: Costa Brava, Girona, Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.6756° or 41° 40′ 32″ northLongitude
2.7932° or 2° 47′ 36″ eastPopulation
41,600Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)United Nations Location Code
ES BLAOpen location code
8FH4MQGV+67OpenStreetMap ID
node 1470838110OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Blanes” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Blanes”
- Arabic: “بلانس”
- Arabic: “بلانيس”
- Aragonese: “Blanes”
- Armenian: “Բլանես”
- Asturian: “Blanes”
- Basque: “Blanes”
- Belarusian: “Бланес”
- Catalan: “Blanes”
- Cebuano: “Blanes”
- Chinese: “布拉内斯”
- Czech: “Blanes”
- Dutch: “Blanes”
- Esperanto: “Blanes”
- French: “Blanes”
- Galician: “Blanes”
- Georgian: “ბლანესი”
- German: “Blanes”
- Hebrew: “בלאנס”
- Hungarian: “Blanes”
- Interlingua: “Blanes”
- Interlingue: “Blanes”
- Irish: “Blanes”
- Italian: “Blanes”
- Japanese: “ブラナス”
- Korean: “블라네스”
- Ladin: “Blanes”
- Latin: “Blandae”
- Lithuanian: “Blanesas”
- Lombard: “Blanes”
- Malagasy: “Blanes”
- Malay: “Blanes”
- Neapolitan: “Blanes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Blanes”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Blanes”
- Persian: “بلانس”
- Polish: “Blanes”
- Portuguese: “Blanes”
- Romanian: “Blanes”
- Russian: “Бланес”
- Serbian: “Бланес”
- Slovak: “Blanes”
- Slovenian: “Blanes”
- South Azerbaijani: “بلانس”
- Spanish: “Blanes”
- Swedish: “Blanes”
- Tahitian: “Blanes”
- Tumbuka: “Blanes”
- Turkish: “Blanes”
- Ukrainian: “Бланес”
- Venetian: “Blanes”
- Waray (Philippines): “Blanes”
- “Blanes”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Blanes”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.