Roses
Roses is a city of 19,000 people on the Costa Brava, in Catalonia. It is on the coast at the northern end of the Gulf of Roses, and is an important fishing port and tourist centre. It is one of the main entry points to Cap de Creus Natural Park.
- Type: Town with 11,400 residents
- Description: municipality in the comarca of the Alt Empordà in Catalonia, Spain
- Also known as: “Roses, Spain”
- Postal code: 17480
- Neighbors: Cadaqués, Castelló d’Empúries, and El Port de la Selva
Places of Interest
Highlights: Dolmen de la Creu d’en Cobertella and Municipal Archive.
Dolmen de la Creu d’en Cobertella
Archaeological site
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Empuriabrava and Cap de Creus Natural Park.
Palau-saverdera
Village
Roses
- Categories: municipality of Catalonia and locality
- Location: Costa Brava, Girona, Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
42.2632° or 42° 15′ 48″ north
Longitude
3.1755° or 3° 10′ 32″ east
Population
11,400
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Open location code
8FJ5757G+76
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Roses” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Roses, Girona”
- Albanian: “Roses”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Rhode”
- Arabic: “روساس”
- Aragonese: “Roses”
- Armenian: “Ռոսաս”
- Asturian: “Roses”
- Basque: “Roses”
- Catalan: “Roses”
- Cebuano: “Roses”
- Chechen: “Росас”
- Chinese: “罗塞斯”
- Chinese: “罗萨斯”
- Czech: “Roses”
- Danish: “Roses”
- Dutch: “Roses”
- Esperanto: “Rosas (Hispanio)”
- Esperanto: “Rosas”
- French: “Roses”
- Galician: “Roses”
- German: “Roses”
- Greek: “Ρόζες”
- Hungarian: “Roses”
- Interlingua: “Roses”
- Irish: “Roses”
- Italian: “Roses”
- Japanese: “ロザス”
- Kazakh: “Розес”
- Kazakh: “Росас”
- Ladin: “Roses”
- Latin: “Rhoda”
- Latin: “Roses”
- Lithuanian: “Rosesas”
- Lombard: “Roses”
- Malagasy: “Roses”
- Malay: “Roses, Girona”
- Malay: “Roses”
- Maltese: “Roses”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Roses”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Roses”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Roses”
- Pampanga: “Roses, Girona”
- Pampanga: “Roses”
- Persian: “رسس”
- Polish: “Roses”
- Portuguese: “Roses”
- Romanian: “Roses”
- Russian: “Розес”
- Russian: “Росас”
- Slovak: “Roses”
- South Azerbaijani: “رسس”
- Spanish: “Rosas”
- Spanish: “Roses”
- Swedish: “Roses”
- Tahitian: “Roses”
- Tatar: “Росас”
- Tumbuka: “Roses”
- Turkish: “Roses”
- Ukrainian: “Розас”
- Urdu: “روسس، سپین”
- Uzbek: “Rosas”
- Venetian: “Roses”
- Vietnamese: “Roses, Girona”
- Vietnamese: “Roses”
- Waray (Philippines): “Roses”
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Places to explore: Les Suredes d’en Mairo, els Grecs i la Muntanyeta and els Grecs.
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