Puigcerdà
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Puigcerdà (Catalan pronunciation: Segre River and on the border with France (it abuts directly onto the French town of Bourg-Madame).
History
Puigcerdà is located near the site of a Ceretani settlement, which was incorporated into Roman territory. The Roman town was named Julia Libyca (modern day Llívia).
Puigcerdà was founded in 1178 by King
commune of Bourg-Madame, in the French part of Cerdanya
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In the closing stages of the 1672-1678
duc de Noailles but returned to Spain in the Treaties of Nijmegen.[4]
Puigcerdà was unique during the
Anarchist council.[citation needed
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The Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway was opened in 1929, crossing the Pyrenees to France.
Main sights
- Puigcerdà Pool
- Torre del Campanar (12th century). It is the last remain of a parish church destroyed in 1936
- Romanesque church of Sant Tomàs de Ventajola, known from 958
- Romanesque church of Sant Andreu Vilallobent, dating to the 10th century and later restored
- Convent of St. Dominic, founded in 1291 and finished in the 15th century
- Old Hospital (1190), in Romanesque-Gothic style
Notable people
- Pere Borrell del Caso (1835-1910), painter
- Gemma Arró Ribot (born 1980), ski mountaineer
- José Antonio Hermida (born 1978), World Champion Cross Country Mountain bike 2010
References
- Generalitat of Catalonia. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
- Statistical Institute of Catalonia. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
- ^ De Périni, Hardÿ (1896). Batailles françaises, Volume V. Ernest Flammarion, Paris. p. 215.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Puigcerdà.
- Government data pages (in Catalan)
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