Berga (Barcelona)

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Berga municipality
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Berga (Barcelona) (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Catalonia
Province : Barcelona
Comarca : Berguedà
Coordinates 42 ° 6 ′  N , 1 ° 51 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 6 ′  N , 1 ° 51 ′  E
Height : 704  msnm
Area : 23 km²
Residents : 16,494 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 717.13 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number  ( INE ): 08022
administration
Official language : Castilian , Catalan
Mayor : Montserrat Venturós i Villalba
Website : www.ajberga.cat
Location of the municipality
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Berga is a Catalan city ​​in the province of Barcelona in northeastern Spain . It is in the Comarca Berguedà .

Geographical location

Berga is about 80 kilometers north of Barcelona .

politics

The conservative-nationalist party Convergència i Unió has an absolute majority in the city parliament.

In May 2012, the residents of Berga declared Juan Carlos I a persona non grata .

Culture

The best known and largest traditional folk festival is La Patum , which takes place annually around the holiday of Corpus Christi . It has been a UNESCO Intangible World Heritage Site since 2005 .

Worth seeing

Berga Town Hall
  • Carrer Major , the church of Sant Joan (12th to 14th centuries)
  • Passeig de la Pau , remains of the castle
  • Romanesque church of Sant Pere from the 12th century

Town twinning

Web links

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

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).
  2. ↑ Spanish locality declares King Juan Carlos a persona non grata derstandard.at, accessed on May 9, 2012