Ibiza town

Ibiza Airport (6 m)
Climate diagram
	Temperature in ° C , precipitation in mm
	Source: Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, period 1981-2010 wetterkontor.de (water temperature)

Eivissa
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Balearic Islands
Island:	Ibiza
Coordinates	38 ° 55 ' N , 1 ° 26' E Coordinates: 38 ° 55 ' N , 1 ° 26' E
Height :	85 msnm
Area :	11.16 km²
Residents :	49,783 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	4,460.84 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number ( INE ):	07026
Nearest airport :	Ibiza Airport; (7.5 km from the city center)
administration
Official language :	Catalan , Spanish
Mayor :	Rafael Ruiz ( PSOE )
Website :	www.eivissa.es
Location of the city
Ibiza and Formentera;

Ibiza Town ( Catalan Eivissa ) is the capital of the Spanish Balearic Islands -Insel Ibiza .

Surname

Ibiza's old town with cathedral

The Spanish and formerly official name of the city is Ibiza . In 1979 the law for the normalization of the language in the Balearic Islands was renamed to the Catalan name Eivissa . The local Catalan-speaking population usually means the island by Eivissa and simply calls the city Vila . Internationally, the name Ibiza is still predominantly used.

geography

location

Ibiza is a port city on the southeast coast of the Mediterranean island named after it . The municipality borders in the west on Sant Josep de sa Talaia , in the northwest a little bit on Sant Antoni de Portmany and in the north on Santa Eulària des Riu . Ibiza Town is by far the smallest municipality on the island in terms of area, but the largest in terms of population.

The central square is the Vara de Rey at the foot of the old town, which is surrounded by buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The inner old town, known as Dalt Vila, is located in an elevated position above the Baix de sa Penya bay and is surrounded by a city wall that has been completely preserved to this day. The main entrance is the Ses Taules city gate . From the south, clockwise, it has the protruding bastions of Sant Joan , Santa Llúcia , Santa Tecla , Sant Bernat , Sant Jordi , Sant Jaume and Sant Pere . The old town reaches its highest point at the Plaça de la Catedral , where the Archaeological Museum, the Casa de La Curia and the Mirador del Rey Jaume I viewpoint are located. From there, the view of the modern expansion of the city opens up.

Climate table

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Ibiza Airport (6 m)

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	15.7	15.9	17.7	19.7	22.7	26.8	29.7	30.3	27.7	24.0	19.6	16.7	O	22.2
Min. Temperature (° C)	8.1	8.3	9.6	11.4	14.6	18.4	21.4	22.4	19.9	16.5	12.3	9.5	O	14.4
Temperature (° C)	11.9	12.1	13.7	15.6	18.6	22.6	25.6	26.3	23.8	20.2	15.9	13.1	O	18.3

Precipitation ( mm )	37	36	27	31	27	11	5	18th	57	58	53	52	Σ	412

Hours of sunshine ( h / d )	5.2	5.9	6.8	8.2	8.8	10.0	10.8	9.8	7.9	6.6	5.2	4.9	O	7.5

Rainy days ( d )	4.9	5.0	3.3	4.1	3.2	1.4	0.5	1.5	4.2	5.6	5.6	5.4	Σ	44.7

Water temperature (° C)	14th	13	14th	15th	17th	21st	24	25th	24	21st	18th	15th	O	18.4

Humidity ( % )	75	73	72	70	70	67	67	69	71	73	73	74	O	71.2

Source: Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, period 1981-2010 wetterkontor.de (water temperature)

structure

The municipality of Ibiza consists of no other districts besides the core city:

Districts	Residents 2008	closed towns with population (2008)	Residents outside of closed localities (2008)
Ibiza (catalan. Eivissa )	46,835	Ibiza ( Eivissa ) 46.502	333

history

The necropolis on the Puig des Molins near Ibiza

The city was founded in the 7th century BC. Founded by the Phoenicians . They named both the city and the island after the god Bes Ebusim . From the Phoenicians a large necropolis west of the old town ( Dalt Vila ), the Puig des Molins ("Mill Hill"), has been preserved, which was later also used by the Romans . More than 4,000 Punic and Roman graves have been discovered here. Grave goods found there can now be viewed in the Museu Monogràfic at the foot of the hill. In January 2011, during construction work on the citadel , the remains of a Phoenician settlement and a Roman temple were uncovered for the first time .

The massive defensive walls of Dalt Vila, which still characterize the cityscape of Ibiza today, were built under the Moorish rule (9th to 13th centuries). The city was called Yabisa by the Moors . The fortress was expanded under the Aragonese and Spanish kings. In the 1990s, the walls, some of which had fallen into disrepair, were restored. In 1999 the old town was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO .

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Panorama picture Eivissa: Left the old town Dalt Vila , right the port

Infrastructure

At the end of July 2013, the new CETIS central bus station was inaugurated on Carrer De Sant Cristòfol . Previously, all bus terminus stops were on Avenida Isidor Macabich . Only five months later, the central bus station CETIS was closed again and the old terminus on Avenida Isidor Macabich was put back into operation. It is still not known when the new bus station will finally open. (As of June 2018)

There are regular ferries from the port to Barcelona , Palma de Mallorca and Formentera .

population

Residents

A resident of Ibiza Town is called in Catalan eivissenc (Spanish ibicenco ), a resident is called eivissenca ( ibicenca ). The inhabitants of the city and island are called Ibizan in German .

With 49,783 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019), just over a third of the island's permanent residents live in Ibiza Town. The population growth has been quite high since the beginning of mass tourism in the 1960s, so that the number of inhabitants increased almost fivefold between 1960 and 2014.

While the population growth was initially due to the influx of workers from mainland Spain, the number of inhabitants has increased since the 1990s and even more sharply since the turn of the millennium, mainly due to the high immigration of foreigners, especially from South America , Romania and Morocco . As a result, the proportion of locals has continued to decline over the past few decades. Today only 39.5% of the population are native to the Balearic Islands and 33.6% are from Ibiza Town.

Development of the population:

Note: The higher number of inhabitants in 1877 and 1887 is due to the fact that Formentera was part of the municipality of Ibiza Town at that time .

Nationalities

Origin 2014	according to citizenship	according to country of birth
Spaniards	74.6%	71.2%
other Europeans	11.4%	10.1%
Romanians	3.8%	3.4%
Italian	3.0%	1.8%
French people	1.0%	1.1%
German	0.8%	0.9%
British	0.6%	0.7%
North and South Americans	9.0%	13.4%
Ecuadorians	3.4%	4.0%
Paraguayans	1.3%	1.3%
Argentinians	0.9%	2.9%
Colombians	0.8%	1.2%
Brazilian	0.8%	1.0%
Uruguayan	0.5%	0.9%
African	3.9%	3.8%
Moroccan	3.3%	3.1%
Asians	1.1%	1.5%

The proportion of foreigners is 25.4% (2014, only main residence). In 1991 there were only very few foreigners living in Ibiza Town (2.3%). The number of foreigners increased sevenfold in the period from 2000 to 2008 alone. The proportion of people born abroad is 28.8%.

Development of the proportion of foreigners: