Vilabertran

Vilabertran municipality
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Catalonia
Province :	Girona
Comarca :	Alt Empordà
Coordinates	42 ° 17 ′  N , 2 ° 59 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 17 ′  N , 2 ° 59 ′  E
Height :	19  msnm
Area :	2.29 km²
Residents :	979 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	427.51 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number  ( INE ):	17214
administration
Official language :	Castilian , Catalan
Mayor :	Martí Armadà i Pujol
Website :	www.vilabertran.com

Santa Maria de Vilabertran Monastery at night

modernist tower Torre d'en Reig

The municipality of Vilabertran is located in the autonomous region of Catalonia . It belongs to the province of Girona in northeastern Spain and is part of the Comarca Alt Empordà . It borders directly on Figueres and is in turn bounded by the course of the La Muga rivers in the north and the Manol in the south.

history

The village was built around the monastery of Santa Maria de Vilabertran , an important Augustinian abbey that existed until 1835.

politics

The 2007 local elections resulted in the following distribution of seats in the local council:

1. Esquerra-AM : 6 seats
2. PSC-PM : 1 seat

economy

Part of the population lives from agriculture, which mainly produces vegetables for the market in Figueres and the surrounding communities. The water required for this is channeled from the Boadella reservoir to Vilabertrans fields.

Attractions

• Monestir de Santa Maria de Vilabertran. Romanesque monastery from the 11th century.
• Torre d'en Reig. Art Nouveau tower from the 19th century, today the seat of the municipal administration.

Web links

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

• Topographic map and data of the Generalitat at Vilabertran
• Informació de l'Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya

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).