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Figueres

Figueres 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.
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  • Type: Town with 47,900 residents
  • Description: town in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain
  • Postal code: 17600
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Figueres–Vilafant railway station and Figueres railway station.

Railway station
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Figueres–Vilafant is a railway station serving the city of Figueres in , . It is located in the municipality of , at about 2 kilometres west from its urban center and 1.5 kilometres from Figueres city centre.

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

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The is situated on a hill in Figueres, 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Peralada and Vilafant.

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is a village in the , , Spain. It was the home of the Frankish Counts of who controlled this portion of the Marca Hispanica before becoming part of the lands held by the Count of Barcelona. Figueres is 6.5 km to the west, Roses 13.6 km to the south east.

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, Girona, , Spain.

Figueres

Latitude
42.2666° or 42° 15′ 60″ north
Longitude
2.9638° or 2° 57′ 50″ east
Population
47,900
Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)
Open location code
8FJ47X87+MG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1470838284
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3122453
Wiki­data ID
Q6839
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Figueres” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Figueres”
  • Albanian: “Figueres”
  • Arabic: “فيغيراس”
  • Aragonese: “Figueras”
  • Armenian: “Ֆիգերաս”
  • Asturian: “Figueres”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fiqeras”
  • Basque: “Figueres”
  • Belarusian: “Фігерас”
  • Belarusian: “Фігерэс”
  • Breton: “Figueres”
  • Bulgarian: “Фигерeс”
  • Bulgarian: “Фигерас”
  • Bulgarian: “Фигерес”
  • Catalan: “Figueres”
  • Cebuano: “Figueres (munisipyo)”
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  • Chechen: “Фигерас”
  • Chinese: “菲格拉斯”
  • Chinese: “菲格雷斯”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Figeres”
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  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيجيراس”
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  • Georgian: “ფიგერასი”
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  • Japanese: “フィゲラス”
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  • Korean: “피게레스”
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  • Lithuanian: “Figeresas”
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  • Persian: “فیگراس”
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  • Romanian: “Figueras”
  • Romanian: “Figueres”
  • Russian: “Фигерас”
  • Russian: “Фигерес”
  • Scots: “Figueres”
  • Serbian: “Фигерeс”
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  • South Azerbaijani: “فیقرس”
  • Spanish: “Figueras”
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  • Tahitian: “Figueres”
  • Thai: “ฟิเกรัส”
  • Turkish: “Figueres”
  • Ukrainian: “Фігерас”
  • Ukrainian: “Фіґерас”
  • Venetian: “Figueres”
  • Vietnamese: “Figueres”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Figueres”
  • Welsh: “Figueres”
  • Western Armenian: “Ֆիկերես”
  • Wu Chinese: “菲格雷斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “菲格雷斯”
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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 “Figueres”. Photo: Francesc Vernet López, CC BY-SA 3.0.