Colera
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: David.gaya, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Photo: cecilia rey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Portbou railway station and Mercat municipal.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Portbou and Cerbère.
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.
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.
Llançà
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Llançà is a small town of 4,900 people on the coast of northern Catalonia, Spain. It is an important fishing port and tourist centre, and is a pre-stage in the Catalan Way of St.
Colera
- Categories: municipality of Catalonia and locality
- Location: Costa Brava, Girona, Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
42.4037° or 42° 24′ 13″ northLongitude
3.1489° or 3° 8′ 56″ eastPopulation
480Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
8FJ5C43X+FHOpenStreetMap ID
node 487629455OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6534046Wikidata ID
Q11296
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Colera” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Colera, Girona”
- Albanian: “Colera”
- Arabic: “كولرا، جرندة”
- Arabic: “كولرا”
- Aragonese: “Colera”
- Armenian: “Կոլերա”
- Asturian: “Colera”
- Basque: “Colera”
- Bavarian: “Colera”
- Catalan: “Colera”
- Cebuano: “Colera”
- Chechen: “Колера”
- Chinese: “科莱拉”
- Dutch: “Colera”
- Esperanto: “Colera”
- French: “Colera”
- Galician: “Colera”
- Georgian: “კოლერა”
- German: “Colera”
- Interlingua: “Colera”
- Interlingue: “Colera”
- Irish: “Colera”
- Italian: “Colera”
- Kazakh: “Колера”
- Ladin: “Colera”
- Latin: “Colera”
- Malay: “Colera, Girona”
- Malay: “Colera”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Colera”
- Pampanga: “Colera, Girona”
- Pampanga: “Colera”
- Persian: “کلرا”
- Polish: “Colera”
- Portuguese: “Colera”
- Romanian: “Colera”
- Russian: “Колера”
- Spanish: “Colera”
- Swedish: “Colera”
- Tahitian: “Colera”
- Tatar: “Колера”
- Turkish: “Colera”
- Ukrainian: “Кулера”
- Uzbek: “Colera”
- Vietnamese: “Colera, Alt Empordà”
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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 “Colera”. Photo: cecilia rey, CC BY-SA 2.0.