Sant Miquel de Fluvià

Municipality of Sant Miquel de Fluvià
Sant Miquel de Fluvià - town view
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Catalonia
Province :	Girona
Comarca :	Alt Empordà
Coordinates	42 ° 11 ′  N , 3 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 11 ′  N , 3 ° 0 ′  E
Height :	25  msnm
Area :	3.56 km²
Residents :	764 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	214.61 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	17475
Municipality number  ( INE ):	17175

Sant Miquel de Fluvià is a place and a municipality ( municipi ) with 764 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the province of Girona in the autonomous region of Catalonia . The place is divided into the old town center and a new district, in which most of the residents live.

location

Sant Miquel de Fluvià is located on a small hill on the north bank of the Río Fluvià at a height of about 25 meters above sea level. d. M. about 37 kilometers (driving distance) northeast of Girona or about 20 kilometers south of Figueres . The distance to the Mediterranean coast is about eight kilometers (as the crow flies) in an easterly direction.

Population development

year	1960	1970	1981	1990	2000	2006
Residents	296	392	473	563	625	671

Since the 19th century the community has recorded a slow but almost constant growth in population.

economy

In the past, the inhabitants lived mainly as a self-sufficient living from agriculture , which also included growing wine and keeping cattle. The place also served as an artisanal and mercantile center of several villages and hamlets in the area.

history

The place seems to have been inhabited as early as Roman times. In the Middle Ages there was a Benedictine monastery belonging to the Abbey of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa , around which the town gradually developed.

Attractions

Former monastery church of Sant Miquel

• A well-preserved ring kiln ( horno ) with a stone central support for burning bricks and ceramics was discovered in 1974, probably dating from Roman times .
• The former monastery church and today's parish church ( Esglesia Sant Miquel ) is a defensive-looking building built for the most part from precisely worked stone from the late 11th or early 12th century. The three apses and the tower show pilaster strips and arched friezes in the Lombard architectural style ; they were later, d. H. possibly increased by fortifications during the time of the Catalan Civil War (1462–1472). The almost free-standing bell tower ( campanar ) on the north side is of Romanesque origin; However, it was also fortified in the 15th century and also shows small tooth-cut friezes above the round arches. The nave and the gable and unadorned west side also have a defensive character. The entrance portal, designed in Gothic style but partly destroyed, bears an inscription from 1802; the capitals show modifications of the trifrons motif. The three-aisled interior is barrel vaulted ; the apses are vaulted by semi- dome- shaped domes . The furnishings include several capitals, some of which are geometrically and some of which are vegetable, a Romanesque baptismal font and a holy water font carved out of a capital . Only remains of the foundations have been preserved from the former enclosure area of the monastery including its cloister .

• 

  Eastern parts of the church

• 

  Trifrons motif

• 

  View into the central apse

literature

• Vicenç Buron: Esglésies Romániques Catalanes. Artestudi Edicions, Barcelona 1977, p. 38, ISBN 84-85180-06-2 .

Web links

Commons : Sant Miquel de Fluvià  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sant Miquel de Fluvià, Roman kiln - photos + info (catalan)
• Sant Miquel de Fluvià, church - photos + information (Spanish)

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).