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Girona

Girona

Girona is the chief city of in Catalonia, northeast Spain. In Castilian Spanish it's called Gerona, but this page uses Catalan spellings.
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  • Type: City with 100,000 residents
  • Description: municipality and capital city of the Province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain
  • Also known as: “Gerona”, “Gerona, Catalonia”, “Gerona, Spain”, “Gerone”, “Gérone”, “Girona, Catalonia”, and “Girona, Spain”
  • Postal codes: 17001-17007, 17070, 17071, 17080, and 17190

Places of Interest

Highlights include Girona Railway Station and Josep Trueta University Hospital.

Railway station
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Girona is a railway station serving the city of Girona in , . It is located in the northern part of the municipality, lying at approximately 1 kilometre southwest of the city's historical centre.

Hospital
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The is a public hospital in the city of Girona in . It was opened on 13 April 1956 in honour of the Catalan surgeon Josep Trueta.

Historic building
Photo: FundMaso, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the birthplace of Rafael Masó i Valentí. It is also one of the most important works of architecture in Girona. Offering unparalleled views of the city, it is the only one of the famous houses on the River open to the public.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Salt and Sarrià de Ter.

Town
Photo: Manel Zaera, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a municipality in the comarca of the Gironès in . It is situated on the right bank of the next to Girona, with which it was merged from 1974 to 1984.

Village
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is a village in the province of and autonomous community of , Spain. It is part of the metropolitan area of the city of Girona.

Village
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is a village in the province of and autonomous community of , Spain. The municipality covers an area of 38.1 square kilometres and the population in 2014 was 3,441.

Girona

Latitude
41.9793° or 41° 58′ 46″ north
Longitude
2.8199° or 2° 49′ 12″ east
Population
100,000
Elevation
81 metres (266 feet)
IATA airport code
GRO
United Nations Location Code
ES GRO
Open location code
8FH4XRH9+PX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30894545
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3121456
Wiki­data ID
Q7038
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Girona” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Girona”
  • Arabic: “جرندة”
  • Arabic: “جرنده”
  • Arabic: “جيرونا”
  • Arabic: “خيرونا”
  • Arabic: “غيرونا”
  • Aragonese: “Chirona”
  • Armenian: “Ժիրոնա”
  • Armenian: “Խիրոնա”
  • Asturian: “Gerona”
  • Asturian: “Girona”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cirona”
  • Basque: “Girona”
  • Belarusian: “Жырона”
  • Bengali: “গিরোনা”
  • Breton: “Girona”
  • Bulgarian: “Жирона”
  • Bulgarian: “Херона”
  • Catalan: “Girona”
  • Cebuano: “Girona (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Girona”
  • Chavacano: “Gerona”
  • Chinese: “吉罗纳”
  • Chinese: “吉隆納”
  • Chinese: “赫罗纳”
  • Chinese: “赫羅納”
  • Corsican: “Ghjirona”
  • Corsican: “Ghjiruna”
  • Corsican: “Girona”
  • Czech: “Gerona”
  • Czech: “Girona”
  • Danish: “Girona”
  • Dutch: “Gerona”
  • Dutch: “Girona”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيرونا”
  • Esperanto: “Girona”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝirono”
  • Estonian: “Girona”
  • Finnish: “Girona”
  • French: “Gerona”
  • French: “Gérone”
  • French: “Girona”
  • French: “Gironne”
  • Galician: “Girona”
  • Galician: “Xirona”
  • Georgian: “ჟირონა”
  • German: “Girona”
  • Greek: “Ζιρόνα”
  • Greek: “Τζιρόνα”
  • Greek: “Χερόνα”
  • Greek: “Χιρόνα”
  • Guarani: “Girona”
  • Guarani: “Heróna”
  • Gujarati: “ગીરોના”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Girona”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kit-lò-na̍p-sén”
  • Hausa: “Girona”
  • Hebrew: “ז’ירונה”
  • Hindi: “गिरोना”
  • Hungarian: “Girona”
  • Icelandic: “Girona”
  • Indonesian: “Girona”
  • Interlingua: “Girona”
  • Interlingue: “Gerona”
  • Irish: “Girona”
  • Irish: “Xerona”
  • Italian: “Gerona”
  • Italian: “Girona”
  • Japanese: “ジローナ”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿರೋನ”
  • Korean: “지로나”
  • Korean: “헤로나”
  • Kurdish: “Girona”
  • Ladin: “Girona”
  • Ladino: “Djirona”
  • Ladino: “Girona”
  • Latin: “Gerunda”
  • Latvian: “Žirona”
  • Lithuanian: “Cherona”
  • Lithuanian: “Žirona”
  • Lombard: “Girona”
  • Macedonian: “Хирона”
  • Malagasy: “Girona”
  • Malay: “Girona”
  • Maltese: “Girona”
  • Marathi: “जीरोना”
  • Mingrelian: “ჟირონა”
  • Northern Frisian: “Girona”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Girona”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Girona”
  • Norwegian: “Girona”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Girona”
  • Ossetian: “Жиронæ”
  • Ossetian: “Херонæ”
  • Persian: “خرنا”
  • Persian: “ژیرونا”
  • Polish: “Gerona”
  • Polish: “Girona”
  • Portuguese: “Gerunda”
  • Portuguese: “Girona”
  • Quechua: “Girona”
  • Romanian: “Girona”
  • Russian: “Жерона”
  • Russian: “Жирона”
  • Russian: “Херона”
  • Sardinian: “Girona”
  • Scots: “Girona”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Girona”
  • Serbian: “Ђирона”
  • Serbian: “Жирона”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gerona”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Girona”
  • Silesian: “Gerona”
  • Sinhala: “ගිරෝනා”
  • Slovak: “Girona”
  • Slovenian: “Girona”
  • South Azerbaijani: “خیرونا”
  • Spanish: “Chirona”
  • Spanish: “Gerona”
  • Spanish: “Girona”
  • Swahili: “Girona”
  • Swedish: “Girona”
  • Tahitian: “Girona”
  • Tamil: “கிரோனா”
  • Tatar: “Жирона”
  • Telugu: “గిరోనా”
  • Thai: “เฆโรนา”
  • Thai: “ฌิโรนา”
  • Turkish: “Girona”
  • Ukrainian: “Жерона”
  • Ukrainian: “Жирона”
  • Ukrainian: “Жірона”
  • Ukrainian: “Херона”
  • Urdu: “جیرونا”
  • Venetian: “Xirona”
  • Vietnamese: “Girona”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Girona”
  • Welsh: “Girona”
  • Western Panjabi: “گیرونا”
  • Wu Chinese: “赫罗纳”
  • Yiddish: “זשיראנע”
  • Yue Chinese: “赫羅納”
  • “Girona”

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