Ponferrada
Ponferrada is a city in Castile and León, with a population of almost 64,000 in 2021. It's best known for its castle built by the Knights Templar, and as a stopover on the pilgrimage trail to Santiago de Compostela.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 39,000 residents
- Description: municipality in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain
- Also known as: “24115”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ponferrada Castle and Ponferrada Railway Station.
Ponferrada Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Vivir el tren, CC BY 2.0.
Ponferrada railway station is the railway station of the Spanish city of Ponferrada.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Flores del Sil and La Martina.
Ponferrada
- Categories: municipality of Spain and locality
- Location: Leon, Castile and León, Central Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.5454° or 42° 32′ 44″ northLongitude
-6.5939° or 6° 35′ 38″ westPopulation
39,000Elevation
679 metres (2,228 feet)Open location code
8CJMGCW4+5FOpenStreetMap ID
node 163298513OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6358656Wikidata ID
Q12164
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Ponferrada” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Ponferrada”
- Arabic: “بونفيرادا”
- Aragonese: “Ponferrada”
- Armenian: “Պոնֆեռադա”
- Asturian: “Ponferrada”
- Basque: “Ponferrada”
- Belarusian: “Панферада”
- Breton: “Ponferrada”
- Catalan: “Ponferrada”
- Cebuano: “Ponferrada”
- Chechen: “Понферрада”
- Chinese: “蓬費拉達”
- Chinese: “蓬费拉达”
- Croatian: “Ponferrada”
- Dutch: “Ponferrada”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بونفيرادا”
- Esperanto: “Ponferado”
- Finnish: “Ponferrada”
- Finnish: “Pontferrada”
- French: “Ponferrada”
- Galician: “Ponferrada”
- Georgian: “პონფერადა”
- German: “Ponferrada”
- Greek: “Πονφερράδα”
- Hawaiian: “Ponferrada”
- Hebrew: “פונפראדה”
- Hebrew: “פונפרדה”
- Hindi: “पोनफेरादा”
- Hungarian: “Ponferrada”
- Ido: “Ponferrada”
- Indonesian: “Ponferrada”
- Interlingua: “Ponferrada”
- Interlingue: “Ponferrada”
- Irish: “Ponferrada”
- Italian: “Ponferrada”
- Japanese: “ポンフェラーダ”
- Korean: “폰페라다”
- Ladin: “Ponferrada”
- Ladino: “Ponferrada”
- Latvian: “Ponferrada”
- Lithuanian: “Ponferada”
- Lithuanian: “Ponferadas”
- Lombard: “Ponferrada”
- Luxembourgish: “Ponferrada”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Ponferrada”
- Macedonian: “Понферада”
- Malagasy: “Ponferrada”
- Malay: “Ponferrada”
- Northern Frisian: “Ponferrada”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ponferrada”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ponferrada”
- Norwegian: “Ponferrada”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ponferrada”
- Persian: “پومفرادا”
- Polish: “Ponferrada”
- Portuguese: “Ponferrada”
- Russian: “Понферрада”
- Scots: “Ponferrada”
- Serbian: “Понферада”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ponferrada”
- Silesian: “Ponferrada”
- Slovenian: “Ponferrada”
- South Azerbaijani: “پومفرادا”
- Spanish: “Ponferrada”
- Swedish: “Ponferrada”
- Tatar: “Понферрада”
- Thai: “ปอนเฟร์ราดา”
- Tok Pisin: “Ponferrada”
- Turkish: “Ponferrada”
- Ukrainian: “Понферрада”
- Venetian: “Ponferrada”
- Vietnamese: “Ponferrada”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ponferrada”
- “Ponferrada”
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