Ferrol

Ferrol is a town of Galicia (Spain) of the Province of Corogne. It is the chief town of comarque of Ferrolterra. It is the seventh town of Galicia and the third urban concentration of the community. In Spanish, the city is indifferently called Ferrol or El Ferrol . The inhabitants of Ferrol and comarque are called Ferrolans (in Spanish, ferrolanes , ártabros or departamentales ).

General information

Ferrol is a seaboard town built by and for the sea: fishing, the shipyards, the quay, the beaches… belongs to the sharp history of a population of some 78.000 inhabitants who form the nerve center, commercial and of work of the Sector of Ferrol.

The ria of Ferrol is the mouth of the large river of Xuvia, between the ends of the courses Prioriño and Segaño and it is protected from the winds and the bad weather by the mountains of Montefaro and Graña. Close to the rias of Corogne, Betanzos and Ares form the Golfe Ártabro.

Its privileged situation, in the septentrional part of a vast bay, vis-a-vis the Atlantic ocean , makes that Ferrol enjoys a oceanic Climat, with soft temperatures all the year and moderate Précipitations.

The 81,9 square kilometers of surface of the city offer a permanent succession of contrasts: medieval sketches with narrow streets and houses with galleries vis-a-vis imposing military constructions, beaches open to the ocean against strengthened castles which dominate the ria. The city is famous for its port activities.

History

The city does not have escaped with the movement pilgrim and the port of Ferrol was (and is always) a place of reference for the unloading of the sailors bound for Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle. The English Way of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle share of Ferrol and, or of Corogne, the two ports most important for the pilgrims arriving by the sea. During the Francoism, Free, born in this city, re-elected it in 1938 El Ferrol del Caudillo , name which it preserved until 1982, date on which the democratic municipal council re-elected it Ferrol.



Demography

In 2004, it counted 210.000 inhabitants in the urban Aire ( Ferrolterra' ) and 77.859 inhabitants for the commune even.

Celebrities of Ferrol

  • Concepción Arenal : Graduate in Right, author, journalist, poet, novelist, dramatic author and of zarzuela . She was the first woman to be attended a Spanish University (in 1841), although, at the beginning, only like listener and equipped with male costume.

Internal bond

External bonds

  • Ferrol TV
  • the Council of Ferrol
  • Chamber of commerce of Ferrol
  • Newspaper " Diario de Ferrol"
  • Ferrol Metropolis
  • Guide of modernistic architecture in Ferrol
  • Site of comarque of Ferrolterra

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