Pals (Girona)

Pals municipality
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Catalonia
Province :	Girona
Comarca :	Baix Empordà
Coordinates	41 ° 58 ′ N , 3 ° 9 ′ E Coordinates: 41 ° 58 ′ N , 3 ° 9 ′ E
Height :	55 msnm
Area :	25.81 km²
Residents :	2,411 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	93.41 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number ( INE ):	17124
administration
Official language :	Castilian , Catalan
Mayor :	Joan Silvestre i Albertí
Website :	www.pals.cat

Downtown of Pals

Pals is a municipality in the autonomous region of Catalonia in Spain in the province of Girona , 105 kilometers northeast of Barcelona . It includes the three localities of Pals , Els Masos de Pals and Sa Punta (Platja de Pals) .

description

View of the medieval Pals

The name Pals comes from the Latin palus and means swamp area . This suggests that Pals was surrounded by lakes and swamps a long time ago.

The medieval old town, the Vila Vela , built on a hill , is a listed building. During the Spanish Civil War, the medieval city center was bombed by Francoist troops and completely destroyed. From 1950, on the initiative of the doctor Pi i Figueras and the mayor Pere Servia i Canto, the reconstruction of the town began, which gradually developed into a top tourist attraction.

At Sa Punta begins an approximately 10 km long sandy beach , which, interrupted by the mouth of the Ter , extends to L'Estartit .

Pals transmitter

Along the beach there was an antenna system with 12 masts , which was used by Radio Liberty as a transmitter from 1959 to 2001 . On March 22, 2006 these masts were blown up. The area of the former transmitter system is now a protected area .

Personalities

Oriol Servià (* 1974), Spanish racing driver

Individual evidence

↑ 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).

Web links

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

[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).