Tortosa

This article deals with the city in Catalonia. For more meanings, see Tortosa (disambiguation) .

Tortosa municipality
View over the city's cathedral to the Ebro
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Catalonia
Province :	Tarragona
Comarca :	Baix Ebre
Coordinates	40 ° 49 ′  N , 0 ° 31 ′  E Coordinates: 40 ° 49 ′  N , 0 ° 31 ′  E
Height :	12  msnm
Area :	218.45 km²
Residents :	33,372 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	152.77 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	43500
Municipality number  ( INE ):	43155
administration
Mayor :	Meritxell Roigé i Pedrola
Website :	www.tortosa.cat
Location of the municipality

Tortosa ( Tarragona Province ) is an old Catalan episcopal city on the Ebro .

history

After the conquest by the Moors , Tortosa was regained in 1148 by a part of the army of the Second Crusade for Count Raimund Berengar IV of Barcelona . In the years 1413/14 the disputation of Tortosa took place here, one of the forced religious discussions between Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages.

Ajuntament (Tortosa)

During the Spanish Civil War , the area around the city was the scene of the Battle of the Ebro for four months in 1938 .

Number of inhabitants

year	1991	1996	2001	2004
Residents	29,452	30,088	28,933	31,979

economy

The city's economy is mainly based on agricultural trade ( olives , rice , citrus fruits ), as well as textile , sugar and ceramic industries .

Climate table

Tortosa (50 m)
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     33   15th 6th     28   16 6th     30th   20th 8th     48   22nd 10     58   25th 13     25th   29 18th     15th   32 20th     33   32 21st     59   29 18th     78   24 14th     60   18th 9     41   15th 6th Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, period 1981-2010

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Tortosa (50 m) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 14.6 16.4 19.5 21.5 24.9 29.4 32.2 32.3 28.8 24.0 18.4 14.9 O 23.1 Min. Temperature (° C) 5.6 6.0 8.1 10.1 13.4 17.5 20.3 20.6 17.5 13.6 9.3 6.3 O 12.4 Temperature (° C) 10.1 11.2 13.8 15.8 19.2 23.4 26.3 26.5 23.2 18.8 13.9 10.6 O 17.8 Precipitation ( mm ) 33 28 30th 48 58 25th 15th 33 59 78 60 41 Σ 508 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 5.3 5.9 6.8 7.7 8.3 9.7 10.6 9.1 7.5 6.2 5.4 5.0 O 7.3 Rainy days ( d ) 4.3 3.7 3.3 5.1 6.0 3.4 2.0 3.3 4.6 5.7 4.6 4.3 Σ 50.3 Humidity ( % ) 65 63 60 59 60 58 57 60 64 68 67 67 O 62.3 Source: Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, period 1981-2010

Attractions

• Gothic cathedral of Tortosa from the years 1347 to 1557, which has both Moorish ( tower ) and classical ( facade ) elements
• Bishop's Palace from 1316
• Reials Collegis de Tortosa
• Castell de la Zuda from the 10th century, today used as a hotel ( Parador ), with a view of the city and the lower Ebro valley
• Casa Brunet , built in 1913
• Slaughterhouse , built between 1906 and 1908

see also: List of cultural monuments in Tortosa

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  Road bridge over the Ebro

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  View of the castle

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  View of the city and the Ebro

Town twinning

Tortosa is twinned with Avignon in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (France), Alcaniz in Aragon (Spain), Vercelli in Piedmont (Italy), Le Puy-en-Velay in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes (France ) and Tartus on the Syrian Mediterranean coast .

People associated with the city

• Pedro de Alberni (1747–1802), officer and politician
• Josep Antoni Martí (1719–1763), composer from Catalonia
• Ramón Cabrera y Griño (1806–1877), Carlist military leader
• Rosa Molas y Vallvé (1815–1876), blessed of the Roman Catholic Church
• Felip Pedrell (1841–1922), composer and musicologist
• Jaume Ferran i Clua (1851–1929), doctor and bacteriologist
• Ricardo María Carles Gordó (1926–2013), Archbishop Emeritus of Barcelona, ​​from 1969 to 1990 Bishop of Tortosa
• Jeremy Alcoba (* 2001), motorcycle racer

See also

• Diocese of Tortosa
• Parc Natural dels Ports ( Biosphere Reserve )
• Ebro Delta (Biosphere Reserve)

Web links

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

• Tortosa Official Website (Catalan, 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).