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Palencia

Palencia

Palencia is a city in in northern Spain, with a population of 76,300 in 2023. It was industrial from about 1840 to 1960 and its centre is modern, but with several interesting old buildings and plazas.
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  • Type: City with 74,400 residents
  • Description: municipality and capital city of the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain
  • Postal codes: 34001-34006, 34070, 34071, and 34080

Places of Interest

Highlights include Palencia Cathedral and Palencia Railway Station.

Museum
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The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Antoninus is a Roman Catholic church located in Palencia, . It is dedicated to Saint Antoninus of Pamiers.

Railway station
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serves the city of Palencia, . It is located on the Madrid–León high-speed rail line, and serves over 500,000 passengers a year.

Museum
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Villalobón.

Village
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is a municipality located in the province of Palencia, , Spain. According to the 2004 census, the municipality has a population of 608 inhabitants.

Palencia

Latitude
42.0109° or 42° 0′ 39″ north
Longitude
-4.5329° or 4° 31′ 58″ west
Population
74,400
Elevation
739 metres (2,425 feet)
IATA airport code
PCI
United Nations Location Code
ES PAC
Open location code
8CJQ2F68+9V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240423012
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3114531
Wiki­data ID
Q8378
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Palencia” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Palencia”
  • Arabic: “بالنثيا”
  • Aragonese: “Palencia”
  • Armenian: “Պալենսիա”
  • Asturian: “Palencia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Palencia”
  • Basque: “Palentzia”
  • Belarusian: “Паленсія”
  • Bengali: “প্যালেনসিয়া”
  • Breton: “Palencia”
  • Bulgarian: “Паленсия”
  • Catalan: “Palència”
  • Cebuano: “Palencia”
  • Chechen: “Паленсия”
  • Chinese: “Palencia”
  • Chinese: “帕伦西亚”
  • Chinese: “帕倫西亞”
  • Czech: “Palencia”
  • Dagbani: “Palencia”
  • Danish: “Palencia”
  • Dutch: “Palencia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بالنثيا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پالينثيا”
  • Esperanto: “Palencio”
  • Extremaduran: “Palencia”
  • Finnish: “Palencia”
  • French: “Palencia”
  • Galician: “Palencia”
  • Georgian: “პალენსია”
  • German: “Palencia”
  • Greek: “Παλένθια”
  • Gujarati: “પાલેનસિયા”
  • Hebrew: “פלנסיה”
  • Hindi: “पलेनसिया”
  • Hungarian: “Palencia”
  • Icelandic: “Palencia”
  • Indonesian: “Palencia”
  • Interlingue: “Liste del villagies locata in Palencia”
  • Interlingue: “Palencia”
  • Irish: “Palencia”
  • Italian: “Palencia”
  • Japanese: “パレンシア”
  • Javanese: “Palencia”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾಲೆನ್ಸಿಯಾ”
  • Korean: “팔렌시아”
  • Ladin: “Palencia”
  • Ladino: “Palensia”
  • Latin: “Pallantia”
  • Latvian: “Palensija”
  • Lithuanian: “Palensija”
  • Lombard: “Palencia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Palencia”
  • Malagasy: “Palencia”
  • Malay: “Palencia”
  • Marathi: “पलेनसिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Palencia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Palencia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palencia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palencia”
  • Norwegian: “Palencia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Paléncia”
  • Ossetian: “Паленси”
  • Persian: “پالنسیا”
  • Polish: “Palencia”
  • Portuguese: “Palência”
  • Romanian: “Palencia”
  • Russian: “Паленсия”
  • Scots: “Palencia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Palencia”
  • Serbian: “Паленсија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palencia”
  • Sinhala: “පැලෙන්ෂියා”
  • Slovak: “Palencia”
  • Slovenian: “Palencia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پالنسیا”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Palencia”
  • Spanish: “Palencia”
  • Spanish: “Pallantia”
  • Swahili: “Palencia”
  • Swedish: “Palencia”
  • Tamil: “பலென்சியா”
  • Tatar: “Паленсия”
  • Telugu: “పాలెన్సియా”
  • Thai: “ปาเลนเซีย”
  • Turkish: “Palencia”
  • Ukrainian: “Паленсія”
  • Urdu: “پالینسیا”
  • Uzbek: “Palencia”
  • Venetian: “Palencia”
  • Vietnamese: “Palencia, Tây Ban Nha”
  • Vietnamese: “Palencia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palencia”
  • Welsh: “Palencia”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕伦西亚”
  • Yue Chinese: “帕倫西亞”
  • “Palencia”

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