Arbúcies

Arbúcies parish
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Catalonia
Province :	Girona
Comarca :	La Selva
Coordinates	41 ° 49 ′  N , 2 ° 31 ′  E Coordinates: 41 ° 49 ′  N , 2 ° 31 ′  E
Height :	291  msnm
Area :	86.22 km²
Residents :	6,556 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	76.04 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number  ( INE ):	17009
administration
Official language :	Castilian , Catalan
Mayor :	Roger Zamorano i Rodrigo
Website :	www.ajarbucies.net

Arbúcies is a Catalan city ​​in the province of Girona in northeastern Spain . It is in the comarca of Selva .

Castell de Montsoriu near Arbúcies

The city lies between the Montseny and Guilleries mountain ranges . The Castell de Montsoriu is located near the city .

Economy and Transport

Despite the small size of the place, Arbúcies is one of the most important and well-known locations in Catalonia (and in Spain as a whole) for the production of buses. The best known are the companies Noge , Beulas , Indcar and Ayats .

The city benefits little from the mass tourism of the places in the Mediterranean, which are only an hour's drive away. However, on weekends and public holidays, Arbúcies is often visited by Spanish tourists. The agricultural area was greatly reduced. Firs and pines, which are economically used as Christmas trees, grow on the abandoned fields.

sons and daughters of the town

• Antonio Durán (1924–2009), football player and coach
• Keita Baldé (* 1995), soccer player

Town twinning

•  Florac , since 1990

Web links

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

• Information from the Generalitat de Catalunya on Arbúcies
• www10.gencat.cat

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).