Vic

Vic parish
	Plaça Major from Vic
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Catalonia
Province :	Barcelona
Comarca :	Osona
Coordinates	41 ° 56 ′ N , 2 ° 15 ′ E Coordinates: 41 ° 56 ′ N , 2 ° 15 ′ E
Height :	498 msnm
Area :	30.92 km²
Residents :	46,214 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	1,494.63 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number ( INE ):	08298
administration
Official language :	Castilian , Catalan
Mayor :	Jacint Codina i Pujols
Website :	www.vic.cat
Location of the municipality

Vic ( Catalan pronunciation [bik] ) is the capital of the Comarca Osona in the province of Barcelona in Catalonia . The city is located about 70 km north of Barcelona at an altitude of about 484 m above sea level. d. M .; it has 46,214 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) and an area of 30.92 km². The city has important sights in the old town, in addition to the spacious historic Plaça Major, a cathedral and a temple from Roman times.

Vic is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Vic and the University of Vic .

Place name

The place name is derived from the Latin word vicus , which denotes a small town settlement. In the Castilian language , the name was historically partly written Vique , but modern mostly Vich , which coincided with the traditional Catalan spelling of the place name before the Catalan spelling reform of 1913 and was the official name of the city until 1981. In 1982 the name was officially changed to Vic according to the standards of the Catalan language by Pompeu Fabra i Poch at the Institut d'Estudis Catalans , which were thus also applied to proper names . The correct Catalan pronunciation remained unchanged since ch in the older Catalan (as in Italian) for [⁠ k ⁠] stood.