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Portbou

Portbou is a town in the Alt Empordà county, in the , , Spain. It has a population of 1082 people as of 2024. Portbou is located near the border in the region, and frequently serves as a dropping off point for trains coming from in France.
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  • Type: Village with 1,080 residents
  • Description: municipality in Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia,Spain
  • Postal code: 17497
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Portbou railway station and Cerbère station.

Railway station
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Portbou is a railway station serving Portbou in , . 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.

Railway station
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is the railway station serving the border town , department, southern France. It is connected to the in Spain by the Balitres tunnel, which uses standard gauge track for trains continuing…

Mountain saddle
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is a mountain saddle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cerbère and Colera.

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is a town of 1,400 people in in . is an important centre for tourism, often linked with undersea diving. For rail travellers on the regional route between France and Spain, is important because almost all trains end or start here or in the neighbouring Spanish border station Portbou.

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is in . It has very beautiful beaches, such as Garbet, Borró, Assutzenes, Portes, Morts, Goixa, Carbassó and Cala Rovellada.

Village
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is a commune in the department in southern . is situated 6 km northwest of Portbou.

Portbou

Latitude
42.4274° or 42° 25′ 39″ north
Longitude
3.1589° or 3° 9′ 32″ east
Population
1,080
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
Open location code
8FJ5C5G5+XH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 130116259
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3113144
Wiki­data ID
Q7165
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Portbou” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Portbou”
  • Arabic: “بورتبو”
  • Aragonese: “Portbou”
  • Armenian: “Պորտբոու”
  • Asturian: “Portbou”
  • Basque: “Portbou”
  • Catalan: “Portbou”
  • Cebuano: “Portbou (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Portbou”
  • Chechen: “Портбоу”
  • Chinese: “波尔沃”
  • Croatian: “Portbou”
  • Czech: “Portbou”
  • Danish: “Portbou”
  • Dutch: “Portbou”
  • Esperanto: “Portbou”
  • Estonian: “Portbou”
  • French: “Portbou”
  • Galician: “Portbou”
  • Georgian: “პორტბოუ”
  • German: “Portbou”
  • Hebrew: “פורבו”
  • Hebrew: “פורטבואו”
  • Hungarian: “Portbou”
  • Interlingua: “Portbou”
  • Irish: “Portbou”
  • Italian: “Portbou”
  • Japanese: “ポルトボウ”
  • Kazakh: “Портбоу”
  • Korean: “포르트보우”
  • Ladin: “Portbou”
  • Latin: “Portbou”
  • Lombard: “Portbou”
  • Macedonian: “Портбоу”
  • Malay: “Portbou”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Portbou”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Portbou”
  • Pampanga: “Portbou”
  • Persian: “پرتبو”
  • Polish: “Portbou”
  • Portuguese: “Portbou”
  • Romanian: “Portbou”
  • Russian: “Портбоу”
  • Russian: “Портбу”
  • Serbian: “Портбоу”
  • Slovenian: “Portbou”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پرتبو”
  • Spanish: “Port Bou”
  • Spanish: “Portbou”
  • Swedish: “Portbou”
  • Tahitian: “Portbou”
  • Tatar: “Портбоу”
  • Turkish: “Portbou”
  • Ukrainian: “Порбоу”
  • Ukrainian: “Портбоу”
  • Venetian: “Portbou”
  • Vietnamese: “Portbou”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Portbou”
  • Welsh: “Portbou”

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