Castropol
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Castropol seen from the east across the Eo river estuary c.1975 | ||
Postal code 33760, 33768, 33769, 33778 and 33794 | ||
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Castropol is a municipality in Asturias, Spain. It is also the name of a parish within the municipality and a town within the parish.
The municipality of Castropol has a population of 3696 (
INE, 2014). It is bounded on the north by the Cantabrian Sea and on the west by a coastal inlet, or ria, which separates it from the municipality of Ribadeo in Galicia, called the river Eo.[2] To the west it is bordered by Tapia de Casariego, by El Franco, Boal and other Asturian municipalities, and to the south by Vegadeo and Villanueva de Oscos
.
Castropol is one of the municipalities in which
Eonaviego
, a Galician-Asturian dialect, is spoken.
Some examples of notable architecture include the 'Capilla del Campo' (15th century), the 'Palacio de Valledor' and 'Palacio de Marqueses de Santa Cruz de Marcenado' (16th-18th centuries, the 'Casa de las Cuatro Torres' (18th century), and the 'Parque de Vicente Loriente' and 'Casino/Casa de Cultura' (early 20th century).
Parishes
It has nine parishes (administrative divisions):
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References
- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
- ^ "Los 10 restaurantes imprescindibles del norte español". Vipealo. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
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