Salou
Salou is a municipality on the Costa Daurada of Tarragona in Catalonia. It is a popular beach and vacation spot with a string of beaches and the nearby PortAventura World theme park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 26,800 residents
- Description: municipality of Tarragona, Spain
- Postal code: 43840
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shambhala and Ferrari Land.
Shambhala
Roller coaster
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shambhala: Expedición al Himalaya is a steel hypercoaster located at PortAventura Park in Salou and Vila-seca, Spain. Manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard, it was the tallest and second fastest roller coaster in Europe at the time of its opening.
Furius Baco
Roller coaster
Photo: PCG44, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Furius Baco is a hydraulically launched steel roller coaster located at PortAventura Park in the resort PortAventura World, Salou, Catalonia, Spain. Manufactured by Intamin, the ride opened on June 5, 2007 as the fastest roller coaster in Europe at 135.0 kilometres per hour, which the ride reaches in 3.5 seconds; this record has since been surpassed by Red Force at neighboring Ferrari Land.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vila-seca and La Pineda.
Vila-seca
Town
Photo: Tabalot, Public domain.
Vila-seca is a municipality of the comarca of Tarragonès, in the province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain. It has a population of 23,917. The historical name was Vila-seca de Solcina and since the 80's known as Vila-seca i Salou until Salou was segregated from Vila-seca on 1989, however the municipality includes the urban areas of La Plana and La Pineda. Vila-seca is situated 4 km north of Salou.
La Pineda
Suburb
La Pineda is a coastal resort which forms part of the municipality of Vila-seca in the province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain.
Vilafortuny
Suburb
Photo: Azulino, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vilafortuny is a suburb, which is situated 4 km west of Salou.
Salou
- Categories: municipality of Catalonia and locality
- Location: Tarragona, Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.0768° or 41° 4′ 37″ northLongitude
1.144° or 1° 8′ 39″ eastPopulation
26,800Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)United Nations Location Code
ES SLOOpen location code
8FH334GV+PJOpenStreetMap ID
node 1470838821OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Salou” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Salou”
- Arabic: “سالو (إسبانيا)”
- Arabic: “سالو”
- Aragonese: “Salou”
- Armenian: “Սալոու”
- Asturian: “Salou”
- Azerbaijani: “Salou”
- Basque: “Salou”
- Belarusian: “Салёў”
- Bulgarian: “Салоу”
- Catalan: “Salou”
- Cebuano: “Salou”
- Chechen: “Салоу”
- Chinese: “萨洛”
- Czech: “Salou”
- Dutch: “Salou”
- Esperanto: “Salou”
- Finnish: “Salou”
- French: “Salou”
- Galician: “Salou”
- Georgian: “სალოუ”
- German: “Salou”
- Hungarian: “Salou”
- Interlingua: “Salou”
- Interlingue: “Salou”
- Irish: “Salou”
- Italian: “Salou”
- Japanese: “サロウ”
- Korean: “살로우”
- Ladin: “Salou”
- Latin: “Salou”
- Lithuanian: “Salou”
- Lombard: “Salou”
- Macedonian: “Салоу”
- Malagasy: “Salou”
- Malay: “Salou”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Salou”
- Norwegian: “Salou”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Salou”
- Persian: “سالو”
- Polish: “Salou”
- Portuguese: “Salou”
- Russian: “Салоу”
- Serbian: “Салоу”
- Slovak: “Salou”
- South Azerbaijani: “سالو”
- Spanish: “Salou”
- Swedish: “Salou”
- Tatar: “Салоу”
- Thai: “ซาลอว์”
- Turkish: “Salou”
- Ukrainian: “Салоу”
- Uzbek: “Salou”
- Venetian: “Salou”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salou”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Salou”. Photo: Mickey Løgitmark, CC BY 3.0.