Agullana

Agullana municipality
Agullana - town view
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Catalonia
Province :	Girona
Comarca :	Alt Empordà
Coordinates	42 ° 24 '  N , 2 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 24 '  N , 2 ° 51'  E
Height :	166  msnm
Area :	27.49 km²
Residents :	831 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	30.23 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	17707
Municipality number  ( INE ):	17001
administration
Official language :	Castilian , Catalan
Website :	Agullana

Agullana is a place and a municipality ( municipi ) with 831 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the province of Girona in the autonomous region of Catalonia . It is located in the Comarca Alt Empordà .

location

The place Agullana is at an altitude of about 165 meters above sea level. d. M. about ten kilometers (driving distance) south of the Spanish-French border town Le Perthus ; the provincial capital Girona is a further 60 kilometers to the south.

Population development

year	1960	1970	1981	1990	2000	2014
Residents	897	824	688	711	655	826

In the 19th century, the community usually had well over 1200 inhabitants. The phylloxera crisis in viticulture and the mechanization of agriculture led to a loss of jobs in the first half of the 20th century and a continuous decline in the number of inhabitants to the lowest levels in the 1980s and 1990s. The resurgence in population is due to the overall positive economic development in Catalonia.

economy

Agriculture and viticulture are the main livelihoods of the inhabitants; in the past, cork ( suro ) was also peeled. Since the 1960s, tourism has become an integral part of the economy.

history

Some Neolithic dolmens and menhirs ( Menhir dels Palaus ) can be found in the municipality. The necropolis of Can Pico de Baix is part of the urn field culture . So far there are no archaeological traces from Roman times. In the Middle Ages , today's place name appears for the first time in a document from 1019, in which the Church of Sanctae Mariae de Aguliana is affiliated to the diocese of Girona .

Attractions

Church of Santa Maria

Menhir dels Palaus

• The single-nave parish church of Santa Maria is a late Romanesque building from the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th centuries, made of precisely worked stone , with a semicircular apse with a final round arch frieze and an imposing bell gable ( espadanya ) in the west - possibly added later . An archivolt portal on the south side of the church, which has been downgraded several times, presents set columns and an empty tympanum ; the outer cover arch is notched. Two slender windows with bevelled reveals are covered by curved serrated friezes . The barrel vault in the otherwise unadorned interior of the church is slightly pointed at the top.
• There are two menhirs and three dolmens in the municipality (→ weblink).

Web links

Commons : Agullana  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Agullana, history - info (catalan)
• Agullana, Megalithic Age - Photos + Info (Catalan)
• Agullana, megalithic buildings - photos + information (catalan)
• Agullana, church - photo + info (catalan)
• Agullana, church - photos + brief information (catalan)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).