Setcases

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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Catalonia
Province : Girona
Comarca : Ripollès
Coordinates 42 ° 23 '  N , 2 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 23 '  N , 2 ° 18'  E
Height : 1230  msnm
Area : 49.1 km²
Residents : 177 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 3.6 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number  ( INE ): 17192
administration
Official language : Castilian , Catalan
Mayor : Carlos Fernández Amer (IpS-PM)
Website : setcases.cat

Setcases ( ˌsɛtˈkazəs ) ( Catalan for ' seven houses ') is a Spanish municipality in the comarca of Ripollès in the province of Girona . It is located near the source of the Ter Riverin the Pyrenees .

Setcases is first mentioned in 965 in a gift from Sunifred II , Count of Cerdanya , to the monastery of Sant Pere de Camprodon .

The 17th century church of Sant Miquel de Setcases houses a Baroque altarpiece dedicated to the Archangel Michael . It is the only one of its kind in the Camprodon valley that survived the destruction of the church during the Spanish Civil War .

Setcases is a popular tourist destination in the Ripollès region, both for mountain hiking in the Ulldeter area and for winter sports with the Vallter ski station .

Number of inhabitants
(source: Información del Instituto de Estadística de Cataluña )
year 1717 1787 1857 1877 1887 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1981 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2011
Residents 324 522 509 509 438 439 401 349 264 243 266 190 159 148 170 152 157 160 158 163 181 185 181 184

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. ↑ a b Ll. Birba: La vall de Camprodon . Montblanc-Martín, Barcelona 1989.

Web links

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