Figueres

This article is about the city of Figueres in Catalonia, Spain. For further meanings see Figueres (disambiguation) .

Figueres municipality
Dalí Museum in Figueres
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Catalonia
Province :	Girona
Comarca :	Alt Empordà
Coordinates	42 ° 16 ′  N , 2 ° 58 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 16 ′  N , 2 ° 58 ′  E
Height :	39  msnm
Area :	19 km²
Residents :	46,654 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	2,455.47 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	17600
Municipality number  ( INE ):	17066
administration
Official language :	Catalan
Mayor :	Agnès Lladó i Saus
Website :	www.figueresciutat.com
Location of the municipality

Figueres [ fiˈɣeɾəs ] ( unofficial Spanish Figueras ) is a city in the province of Girona in the autonomous region of Catalonia , Spain . It is located on the Costa Brava , has 46,654 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) and is the capital of the Alt Empordà . The city is 28 m above sea level.

history

The city is dominated by the octagonal fortress Castell de Sant Ferran from the 18th century . With an area of ​​32 hectares, this military fortress was built for 6,000 people and 500 horses and is now the largest bulwark fortress built in Europe in the 18th century. The military history museum of Figueres ( Museo Histórico Militar de Figueres in Spanish ) has been located inside the fortress since January 2010 .

Cultural institutions

• The city theater Teatre Museu Salvador Dalí , which Dalí has converted into a museum, with the Torre Gorgot on the old city wall, is one of the best-visited museums in Spain.
• Other museums in Figueres are the Technical Museum , the Toy Museum , the art museum Museu de l'Emporda and the Museum of Naive Art .
• The Estadi Municipal de Figueres holds around 9500 visitors

traffic

Figueres is located on the Autopista AP-7 motorway and is approximately 50 km from Girona's Costa Brava airport. To the east of the old town is the city's train station on the broad-gauge Barcelona – Cerbère line with regional and national connections of Renfe , Spain's state railway.

In December 2010, the Figueres-Vilafant train station opened on the high-speed line between Barcelona and Perpignan and has direct TGV connections to Paris and Barcelona. There are also AVE connections to Madrid and Barcelona.

Figueres also has a local bus company, TMF , which operates three lines and is currently running an electric test bus .

City festival

The main festival is the Festes de la Santa Creu in the first week of May.

Town twinning

• Marignane in the Bouches-du-Rhône department , ( France )

Personalities, sons and daughters of the city

• Rafael Ildefonso Arté (1843–1877), music teacher
• Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), painter and one of the main exponents of Surrealism
• Narcís Monturiol (1819–1885), developer of the submarines Ictíneo I and Ictíneo II
• Vicenç Pagès i Jordà (* 1963), writer and university lecturer
• Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer (1912–1967), mathematician
• Maverick Viñales (* 1995), motorcycle racer

Web links

Commons : Figueres  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Figueres  - travel guide

• Topographic map and data of the Generalitat of Figueres
• Figueres - Catalunya Magazine online (German)
• FIGUERES (Alt Empordà) - ELEMENTS D'INTERÈS HISTÒRICO-ARTÍSTIC. In: poblesdecatalunya.cat (Catalan)
• Castell de Sant Ferran (Spanish, Catalan, English, French)

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. ↑ www.figueres.cat castell-de-sant-ferran ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ History of the Museum (Spanish), accessed March 5, 2018.