Ripoll

Ripoll parish
	The Ripoll Monastery
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Catalonia
Province :	Girona
Comarca :	Ripollès
Coordinates	42 ° 12 ' N , 2 ° 11' E Coordinates: 42 ° 12 ' N , 2 ° 11' E
Height :	691 msnm
Area :	73.3 km²
Residents :	10,686 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	145.78 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number ( INE ):	17147
administration
Official language :	Castilian , Catalan
Mayor :	Teresa Jordà i Roura
Website :	www.ajripoll.org
Location of the municipality

Ripoll is a city in the province of Girona in Catalonia ( Spain ). It was founded at the confluence of the rivers Ter and its tributary Freser and is the capital of the Comarca Ripollès in the Catalan pre- Pyrenees . The city has 10,686 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) and an area of 10.19 km².

Community structure

history

two-storey Romanesque cloister monastery Ripoll

Nucleus of the village is Santa Maria de Ripoll , a former Benedictine - Abbey . This monastery was founded by Count Wilfried the Hairy (Guifré el Pilós) in 879 or 880 . He is buried in the church. The monastery is famous for its book illumination (museum on site).

Town twinning

Prades in the Pyrénées-Orientales department , ( France ) since 1981

Sons and daughters

Concepció Ferrer (* 1938), politician
Carlos Palau (* 1959), racing car driver

Web links

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

Ajuntament de Ripoll

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).

[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).