Editing Puigcerdà

{{Infobox settlement
| name                    = Puigcerdà
| settlement_type         = [[Municipalities of Catalonia|Municipality]]
| official_name           = <!-- if different from name -->
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| image_skyline           =Ayuntamiento de Puigcerdá - DSC 0490.JPG
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| image_caption           = Casa de la Vila, the city hall
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| subdivision_type1       = [[Autonomous communities of Spain|Autonomous community]]
| subdivision_name1       = {{flag|Catalonia}}
| subdivision_type2       = [[Provinces of Spain|Province]]
| subdivision_name2       = [[province of Girona|Girona]]
| subdivision_type3       = [[Comarques of Catalonia|Comarca]]
| subdivision_name3       = [[Baixa Cerdanya]]
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| elevation_m             = 1202
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| area_footnotes          =<ref name=idescat>{{cite web|url=http://www.idescat.cat/emex/?lang=en&id=171411|title=El municipi en xifres: Puigcerdà|publisher=[[Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya|Statistical Institute of Catalonia]]|access-date=2015-11-23}}</ref>
| area_total_km2          = 18.9
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| population_demonym      = Puigcerdanenc
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| timezone                = [[Central European Time|CET]]
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| area_code_type          = [[Telephone numbers in Spain|Dialing code]]
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| leader_title            = [[Mayor]]
| leader_name             = Albert Piñeira Brosel (2015)<ref name=municat>{{cite web|url=http://aplicacions.municat.gencat.cat/index.php?page=consulta&mostraEns=1714110007|title=Ajuntament de Puigcerdà|publisher=[[Generalitat of Catalonia]]|access-date=2015-11-13}}</ref>
| leader_party            = [[Convergència i Unió|CiU]]
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| website                 = {{URL|puigcerda.cat}}
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'''Puigcerdà''' ({{IPA|ca|ˌputʃəɾˈða}}; {{langx|es|Puigcerdá}}, {{IPA|es|putʃθeɾˈða|pron}}) is the [[capital city|capital]] of the Catalan ''[[comarques of Catalonia|comarca]]'' of [[Cerdanya (comarca)|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]]).

== 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, Cerdanya|Hix]] as the capital of [[Cerdanya]]. Hix is now a village in the [[commune in France|commune]] of [[Bourg-Madame]], in the [[French Cerdagne|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 [[Anne_Jules_de_Noailles|duc de Noailles]] but returned to Spain in the [[Treaties of Nijmegen]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=De Périni |first1=Hardÿ |title=Batailles françaises, Volume V |date=1896 |publisher=Ernest Flammarion, Paris|page=215}}</ref> 

Puigcerdà was unique during the [[Spanish Civil War]] in having a democratically elected [[Anarchist]] council.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-16 |title=Over the border…Puigcerdà |url=https://anglophone-direct.com/puigcerda/ |access-date=2024-12-31 |website=P-O Life |language=en-GB}}</ref>

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 architecture|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 architecture|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 ==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Puigcerdà}}
* [http://aplicacions.municat.gencat.cat/index.php?page=consulta&mostraEns=1714110007 Government data pages] {{in lang|ca}}


{{Geographic location
|Centre = Puigcerdà
|N  = [[Ur, Pyrénées-Orientales|Ur]] (France)
|NE = [[Bourg-Madame]] (France)
|E  = [[Palau-de-Cerdagne]] (France)
|SE = [[Alp, Spain|Alp]]
|S  = [[Fontanals de Cerdanya]]
|SW = [[Bolvir]]
|W  = [[Guils de Cerdanya]]
|NW = [[Enveitg]] (France)
}}
{{Cerdanya}}
{{Municipalities in Girona|state=autocollapse}}
{{Authority control}}

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