| General information of Girona |
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| Girona is located in the confluence of the rivers Ter and Onyar, in the slope of a hill. The strategic importance of its location has done that outside a city surrounded and destroyed in numerous occasions throughout the centuries At the Roman time consolidated and got to acquire the strategic value of fortress, of this time is even the construction of the municipium, next to the Augusta Route. Towards century V the Bishopric is instituted, although the city would maintain at that time a brief dominion Muslim (century VIII). |
| Also it collaborated with the conquest of Barcelona, towards the year 801, making possible that these señoríos were united around the control of Guifré the Pelós. Carlomagno turned it border outpost of its empire and one of basic the condales nuclei of Hispanic Marca. In century XIV already she was considered the second city more populated with Catalunya. At times of the French invasion, in century XIX, Girona was considered a bastion defensive of Catalonia and therefore it underwent many sieges. The resistance is historical that exerted during the war against Napoleón (1808-1809). After the depression of this time the city underwent a despoblamiento that reduced half to it of its demography. Lived from the Roman time, Girona knows its maximum splendor during the Average Age, time at which the city is extended and that constitutes an important center of market. It is Girona one of but the important monumental sets of Catalonia, and the beauty of his old helmet conserve his entire medieval flavor. |
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General information of Girona - Catedral
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General information of Girona - Calle barrio antiguo
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