Peralada
Peralada is a village in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. It was the home of the Frankish Counts of Peralada who controlled this portion of the Marca Hispanica before becoming part of the lands held by the Count of Barcelona.
Figueres is 6.5 km to the west, Roses 13.6 km to the south east. The N-260 to the south connects Figueres with Portbou and the French border.
The local economy is based on tourism, winemaking and dairy farming.
Since 1987 a festival of music has been held in Peralada.
* The castle, restored in the 19th century in French style.
* Parish church of St. Martin (18th century). Of the previous medieval edifice, the bell tower has survived.
* Convent of St. Dominic (11th century). The church interior has capitals with biblical, flower and geometrical themes.
* Church of Santa Eulàlia (15th century)
* Convent del Carme (1293), with a Gothic cloister from the 14th century
* Celler Peralada
Figueres is 6.5 km to the west, Roses 13.6 km to the south east. The N-260 to the south connects Figueres with Portbou and the French border.
The local economy is based on tourism, winemaking and dairy farming.
Since 1987 a festival of music has been held in Peralada.
* The castle, restored in the 19th century in French style.
* Parish church of St. Martin (18th century). Of the previous medieval edifice, the bell tower has survived.
* Convent of St. Dominic (11th century). The church interior has capitals with biblical, flower and geometrical themes.
* Church of Santa Eulàlia (15th century)
* Convent del Carme (1293), with a Gothic cloister from the 14th century
* Celler Peralada
Map - Peralada
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Anatomically modern humans first arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 42,000 years ago. The ancient Iberian and Celtic tribes, along with other pre-Roman peoples, dwelled the territory maintaining contacts with foreign Mediterranean cultures. The Roman conquest and colonization of the peninsula (Hispania) ensued, bringing the Romanization of the population. Receding of Western Roman imperial authority ushered in the migration of different non-Roman peoples from Central and Northern Europe with the Visigoths as the dominant power in the peninsula by the fifth century. In the early eighth century, most of the peninsula was conquered by the Umayyad Caliphate, and during early Islamic rule, Al-Andalus became a dominant peninsular power centered in Córdoba. Several Christian kingdoms emerged in Northern Iberia, chief among them León, Castile, Aragon, Portugal, and Navarre made an intermittent southward military expansion, known as Reconquista, repelling the Islamic rule in Iberia, which culminated with the Christian seizure of the Emirate of Granada in 1492. Jews and Muslims were forced to choose between conversion to Catholicism or expulsion, and eventually the converts were expelled through different royal decrees.
Currency / Language
ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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EUR | Euro | € | 2 |
ISO | Language |
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EU | Basque language |
CA | Catalan language |
GL | Galician language |
OC | Occitan language |
ES | Spanish language |