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Puigcerdà

Field	Value
name	Puigcerdà
settlement_type	Municipality
official_name
native_name
image_skyline	Ayuntamiento de Puigcerdá - DSC 0490.JPG
image_caption	Casa de la Vila, the city hall
image_flag	Bandera de Puigcerdà.svg
image_shield	Coat of Arms of Puigcerdà.svg
pushpin_map	Spain Catalonia vegueries#Spain
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Catalonia
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Spain
subdivision_type1	Autonomous community
subdivision_name1	Catalonia
subdivision_type2	Province
subdivision_name2	Girona
subdivision_type3	Comarca
subdivision_name3	Baixa Cerdanya
seat_type
coordinates
elevation_m	1202
area_footnotes
area_total_km2	18.9
established_title
population_as_of
population_footnotes
population_total
population_demonym	Puigcerdanenc
population_density_km2	auto
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
postal_code_type	Postal code
area_code_type	Dialing code
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Albert Piñeira Brosel (2015)
leader_party	CiU
blank_name	Climate
blank_info	Cfb
website

Puigcerdà (; , ) is the capital of the Catalan comarca of Cerdanya, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, northern Spain, near the Segre River and on the border with France (it abuts directly on the French town of Bourg-Madame). It has a population of .

History

Puigcerdà is located near the site of a Ceretani settlement, which was incorporated into Roman territory. The Roman town was named Julia Libyca (modern day Llívia).

Puigcerdà was founded in 1178 by King Alfonso I of Aragon, Count of Barcelona. In 1178 Puigcerdà replaced Hix as the capital of Cerdanya. Hix is now a village in the commune of Bourg-Madame, in the French part of Cerdanya.

In the closing stages of the 1672–1678 Franco-Dutch War, the town was captured by a French army under the duc de Noailles but returned to Spain in the Treaties of Nijmegen.

Puigcerdà was unique during the Spanish Civil War in having a democratically elected Anarchist council.

The Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway was opened in 1929, crossing the Pyrenees to France.

Main sights

Puigcerdà Pool
Torre del Campanar (12th century), the ruins of a parish church destroyed in 1936
Romanesque church of Sant Tomàs de Ventajola, dating from 958
Romanesque church of Sant Andreu Vilallobent, dating to the 10th century and later restored
Convent of St. Dominic, founded in 1291 and finished in the 15th century
Old Hospital (1190), in Romanesque-Gothic style

Notable people

Pere Borrell del Caso (1835-1910), painter
Gemma Arró Ribot (born 1980), ski mountaineer
José Antonio Hermida (born 1978), 2010 cross country mountain biking world champion

References

"El municipi en xifres: Puigcerdà". [[Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya.
"Ajuntament de Puigcerdà". [[Generalitat of Catalonia]].
(1896). "Batailles françaises, Volume V". Ernest Flammarion, Paris.
(2024-01-16). "Over the border…Puigcerdà".

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