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42-575: Vacarisses ( Catalan pronunciation: [bəkəˈɾisəs] ) is a village in the province of Barcelona and autonomous community of Catalonia , Spain. The municipality covers an area of 40.44 square kilometres (15.61 sq mi) and the population in 2014 was 6,218. The village is home to korfball team CK Vacarisses . This Province of Barcelona location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Provinces of Spain The boundaries of provinces can only be altered by

84-607: A "local entity" in the Constitution, the Provincial council belongs to the sphere of local government . The layout of Spain's provinces closely follows the pattern of the territorial division of the country carried out in 1833 . The only major change of provincial borders since that time has been the division of the Province of Canary Islands into the provinces of Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de Tenerife . Historically,

126-619: A delegation of the UNED , where different disciplines can be studied by distance. In team sports, Gijón's professional football team, Sporting de Gijón , currently plays in the Spanish second division . CP Gijón Solimar is one of the most important women's roller hockey teams in Europe as it is five times champion of the European Cup . Círculo Gijón is the main basketball team of

168-471: A good freight service by El Musel Gijón currently has 18 bus lines and four more Búho (owl) lines. The owl services work on Friday and Saturday nights, and daily in the months of July and August. The city is served by the Gijón Railway Station . PSOE governed the city from 1979 to 2011, the longest continuous period since Spain's transition to democracy . Carmen Moriyón ,

210-465: A population of 273,744 as of 2023, Gijón is the 15th largest city in Spain. Gijón forms part of a large metropolitan area that includes twenty councils in the center of the region, structured with a dense network of roads, highways and railways and with a population of 835,053 inhabitants in 2011, making it the seventh largest in Spain. During the 20th century, Gijón developed as an industrial city in

252-536: A temperate oceanic climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfb ) typical of the Atlantic coast of Spain, with cool summers and wet and mostly mild winters. The onshore flow from the Atlantic Ocean creates a cool summer and mild winter climate where severe heat and very cold temperatures are rare. The narrow temperature range is demonstrated by the record August temperature being only 6.4 °C warmer than

294-521: Is a city and municipality in north-western Spain. It is the largest city and municipality by population in the autonomous community of Asturias . It is located on the coast of the Cantabrian Sea in the Bay of Biscay , in the central-northern part of Asturias; it is approximately 24 km (15 mi) north-east of Oviedo , the capital of Asturias, and 26 km (16 mi) from Avilés . With

336-631: Is also a private sports club in Gijón with more than 33,000 members, Real Grupo de Cultura Covadonga , the biggest club in Asturias. Its handball section plays in the third division, where also plays AB Gijón Jovellanos , and its women's volleyball team plays also in the Spanish second league. Not far from Gijón, there are several ski resorts in Asturias , the main being Valgrande-Pajares . The city's marina houses an important fleet of yachts and

378-464: Is part of the statistical (not yet developed from an administrative standpoint) comarca of Gijón . One theory based on some early medieval texts mention it as "Gigia", derived from the identical Greek and Latin term "gigias", meaning "giant", both of which refer to the Greek mythological giant Gigas . The medieval "Gigia" name, in turn, more specifically would refer to the ancient Roman wall built on

420-507: Is situated along the Asturian coast and is distinguished by the peninsula of Cimavilla (the original settlement) which separates the beach of San Lorenzo and adjacent neighborhoods to the east from the beaches of Poniente and Arbeyal, the shipyards, and the recreational port and the Port of El Musel to the west. It is close to the other main Asturian cities, Oviedo and Avilés . Gijón has

462-710: Is the base for many water sports , being Royal Astur Yacht Club the most important yacht club in town. In 2022, the city will host an ATP tennis tournament for the first time. The biggest sport centers in Gijón are Estadio El Molinón , with 30,000 seats, Plaza de Toros de El Bibio with 12,000 and Palacio de Deportes with 5,000 seats. Games were played in town during the 1982 FIFA World Cup . The city has in total 13 public sport centers (in Spanish: Centros Municipales Integrados ) with swimming pools, gyms and saunas . Swimming pools are free for children up to age 14. For much of

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504-690: The Balearic Islands , La Rioja , and Navarre , and a name reduction in Las Palmas and Castellón — and biggest town —with the exception of Pontevedra ( Vigo ), Asturias ( Gijón ) and Cádiz ( Jerez ). Only two capitals of autonomous communities— Mérida in Extremadura and Santiago de Compostela in Galicia —are not also the capitals of provinces. Seven of the autonomous communities comprise no more than one province each: Asturias,

546-616: The LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Laboral Center of Art and Industrial Creation). The center was inaugurated on March 30, 2007 as an interdisciplinary space to promote artistic exchange and foster the relationship between society, art, science, technology and the creative industries. In recent years, Gijón has become a stop city for the Cirque du Soleil . The performances of the Cirque du Soleil have been very successful in

588-520: The autonomous community of Castile and León . In addition, organisations outside Spain use provinces for statistical analysis and policy making and in comparison with other countries including NUTS , OECD , FIPS , CIA World Factbook , ISO 3166-2 and the UN's Second Administrative Level Boundaries data set project (SALB). Most of the provinces are named after their capital town —with the exceptions of Álava , Asturias , Biscay , Cantabria , Gipuzkoa ,

630-479: The 20th century the town was heavily dependent on mature heavy industries, but at the end of the Francoism , tertiary sector employment began to expand rapidly along with the city's population which by 2007 stood officially at 277,897 for Gijón proper, and approximately 380,000 for the total Gijón agglomeration. The port is at the center of many of the local businesses. Apart from directly port related activities,

672-427: The 23.2 °C (73.8 °F) August normal high. Another clear underlining of the marine influence is that the coolest ever August has been as near the average as 17.9 °C (64.2 °F). Gijón is divided in six districts: Center, East, South, West, El Llano and Rural. In this last one, all the peri-urban zone and the rural parishes are integrated. According to the 2021 Municipal Population Register (INE),

714-564: The 6th and 5th centuries BC. It was populated by Astures ( Cilúrnigos ) and later Romanized. Noega was progressively abandoned when the Roman wall in the peninsula of Cimavilla , called the Gegionem , was built. The invasions of barbarian tribes in the 5th and 6th centuries left no traces. The region submitted to the power of the Visigoth king Sisebut in the 7th century. This period marks

756-489: The Balearic Islands, Cantabria, La Rioja, Madrid , Murcia , and Navarre. These are sometimes referred to as "uniprovincial" communities. Ceuta , Melilla , and the plazas de soberanía are not part of any province. The table below lists the provinces of Spain. For each, the capital city is given, together with an indication of the autonomous community to which it belongs and a link to a list of municipalities in

798-660: The French invasions, the wars and the financial trouble in the era, the development stopped until late in the century, when the Oviedo-Gijón road was created and the port was recognized as the best one in Asturias, favoring the start of industrial activities in the town. The 19th century brought with it great development, with the commerce of coal, the Gijón– León road and later the Langreo –Gijón railway. All this contributed to

840-537: The Spanish Parliament, giving rise to the common view that the 17 autonomous communities are subdivided into 50 provinces . In reality the system is not hierarchical but defined according to jurisdiction ( Spanish : competencias ). The body charged with government and administration of a province is the Provincial council , but their existence is controversial . As the province is defined as

882-795: The University of Oxford for Fernando González Molina's film, Brain Drain . Amalia Ulman’s 2021 film “El Planeta” was shot in and discusses Gijon. There are two campuses located in Gijón, one of the University of Oviedo and other of the National University of Distance Education . Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computers and Systems Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Telecommunication Engineering. Public Administration and Management, Trade and Marketing, Tourism and Social work. Gijón also has

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924-580: The adoption of the system of autonomous communities in the period of the Spanish transition to democracy . They nevertheless remain electoral districts for national elections. Provinces are also used as geographical references: for instance in postal addresses and telephone codes. National media will also frequently use the province to disambiguate small towns or communities whose names occur frequently throughout Spain. A small town would normally be identified as being in, say, Valladolid province rather than

966-470: The all-time record January temperature. The climate is wet and cloudy by Spanish standards, but is indeed drier than other locations on the Atlantic in the country. Humidity is high year-round. Summer temperatures are very consistent as proven by the fact that the all-time warmest month of August 1997 had an average temperature of 20.9 °C (69.6 °F) and no month has ever been recorded at an average high above 24.7 °C (76.5 °F) in comparison to

1008-713: The beginnings of Christianization, one of the first Christian worshipping places being the Roman villa of Veranes. Gijón was capital of the Muslim territories on the Cantabric Sea , under the power of Munuza , for a short period between 713 and 718 or 722. In 722 the Asturians won the Battle of Covadonga which is regarded as the beginning of the Reconquista . The Asturian forces were led by Pelagius , who would become

1050-737: The city and the creation of new neighborhoods like Natahoyo, La Calzada, Tremañes or El Humedal. In the 20th century, with the Spanish Civil War , the city supported the Republican faction . The army was located in El Coto. The resistance was eliminated in August 1936. Later, the village was the capital of the Sovereign Council of Asturias and León until 20 October 1937, when the troops of General Francisco Franco occupied

1092-549: The city, and plays in Spanish basketball third tier . Gijón Baloncesto , folded in 2009, was the most important team of this sport in Gijón, and played four seasons in the Liga ACB , the most important national league in Europe. A women's basketball club, CD Basket Mar , existed in Gijón between 1997 and 2018. CSI Gijón is Spain's official show jumping horse show which is held annually in Gijón's equestrian facility . There

1134-688: The city. Iron manufacture was the main industry of Gijón from the last years of the 19th century until the last decades of the 20th. Uninsa was created in 1971, and it merged with Ensidesa. In the last years of the century was converted in Aceralia , and integrated in Arcelor , along with the Luxembourg-based Arbed and the French company Usinor . The last decades of the century brought an industrial crisis affecting mainly iron manufacture and local shipbuilding. This brought new terrain for

1176-556: The city. In July 2004, Saltimbanco arrived and in the summer of 2007, they presented Alegría in Gijón, the first time that this tour stopped in northern Spain. During the summer of 2009, Cirque du Soleil returned to Gijón with the Varekai show. Gijón is the birth place of several notable people, like Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos , statesman, author, philosopher and a major figure of the Age of Enlightenment . José Luis Garci filmed most of

1218-412: The council had 268,896 inhabitants, of which 142,411 are women and 126,485 are men. The municipal population grew remarkably throughout the 20th century, especially between the 1960s and 1980s, a period in which it doubled. Starting in the 1990s, growth stagnated, reflecting the similar slowdown at the national level of Spain. However, due to immigration, both from other Asturias councils and from abroad,

1260-583: The creation of new beaches, parks and neighborhoods. It was also created a campus of the University of Oviedo . The city is situated on the coast of central Asturias, from sea level to an altitude of 513 m (1,683 ft) at Picu Samartín and 672 m (2,205 ft) at Peña de los Cuatro Jueces , bordered on the West by Carreño , the East by Villaviciosa , and to the South by Siero and Llanera . The city

1302-680: The economy is based on tourism, steel ( Arcelor ), other metallurgy, livestock rearing and fisheries. Gijón is served by Asturias Airport , about 38 km (24 mi) from the center of the city; it is located in the municipality of Castrillón. The airport is connected to the city by the A-8 motorway, the N-632 national highway and scheduled bus service ( Alsa ). The service offered by LD Lines has been canceled in Gijón. The closest Ferry services are now in Santander and Bilbao . However, Gijón still has

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1344-535: The first king of the Kingdom of Asturias . Until 1270 there were no reliable references to Gijón as a settlement, with only short mentions in some documents. In this year, Alfonso X of Castile gave it the status of puebla . This documentation appears in the Monastery of San Vicente de Oviedo . In the 14th century, the war between Alfonso Enríquez, Count of Gijón and Noreña and Henry III of Castile ended when

1386-537: The footage from the film Volver a empezar in the city during the early 1980s. The film would later win an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. In the early 1990s there was a boom in indie music bands in the town, which became known as the "Xixón Sound". The comedy Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure was also filmed in part in the City of Culture of Gijón. In 2009, the Laboral and its surroundings were converted to

1428-508: The largeness of the wall itself. The name of the city might also come from the hypothetical Roman actual name of the place "Sessio" which may have turned into the word "Xixón" as the centuries went by. Then the Spanish word "Gijón", which has been also written during the Middle age as "Jijón" or even "Jixón", would be a Castilianization of the Asturian name. This theory is nowadays known as

1470-475: The most acceptable. The first evidence of human presence in what is known nowadays as the municipality of Gijón is located on Monte Deva, where there exists a series of tumuli , and on Monte Areo, where there are some neolithic dolmens. These dolmens were discovered in 1990 and were supposedly built around 5000 BC. The first noticed settlement (Noega) is located in Campa Torres. It has its origin between

1512-547: The peninsula of the Cimavilla neighbourhood of Gijón. This wall was called the "Gegionem" by the Romans, and is itself a compound Latin term being either "geg-ionem", meaning "giant-ness/gigantic", "gegi-onem", meaning "concrete giant", or "gegio-nem" meaning "giant end". Presumably the use of the term meaning "giant" referred to either the pre-Germanic Astur peoples who inhabited the area being of large physical stature, or simply

1554-695: The population started to increase again at the turn of the 21st century. Cultural activities are carried out throughout the year, which increase considerably in the summer months, especially in August due to the Feast of the Assumption, with parties, music and theater. This complements the continuous programming of the Teatro Municipal Jovellanos (Jovellanos Municipal Theater). The various festivities carried out in Gijón include: The Universidad Laboral de Gijón , completed in 1955, contains

1596-707: The province. The names of the provinces and their capitals are ordered alphabetically according to the form in which they appear in the main Misplaced Pages articles describing them. Unless otherwise indicated, their Spanish-language names are the same; locally valid names in Spain's other co-official languages ( Basque , Catalan , which is officially called Valencian in the Valencian Community , Galician ) are also indicated where they differ. Gij%C3%B3n Gijón ( Spanish: [xiˈxon] ) or Xixón ( Asturian: [ʃiˈʃoŋ] )

1638-471: The provinces served mainly as transmission belts for policies enacted in Madrid, as Spain was a highly centralised state for most of its modern history. The provinces were the "building-blocks" from which the autonomous communities were created following processed defined in the 1978 Constitution . Consequently, no province is divided between these communities. The importance of the provinces has declined since

1680-459: The quick expansion of the port, since the intensity of the traffic overflowed the port. A new port, El Musel , was built in 1893 and it was the first coal port of the peninsula. Gijón was going through a conversion to an industrial town with a new bourgeois and an urban development, opening new streets and squares, with new municipal equipments like water, garbage collection, lighting, and so on. All this industrial development brought new manpower to

1722-663: The steel and naval industries. However, due to the decline in manufacturing in these industries, in recent years Gijón is undergoing a transformation into an important tourist, university, commercial and R&D center. Gijón is the location of the Radiotelevisión del Principado de Asturias , the neighbourhood of Cimavilla , the Universidad Laboral de Gijón , the Revillagigedo Palace, and the adjoining Collegiate Church of San Juan Bautista. Gijón

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1764-473: The village of Gijón was burned and totally destroyed, practically disappearing. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Gijón reemerged. A new dock was built in the port adding fishing and commerce to the area. In the 17th and 18th centuries Gijón began to develop rapidly, growing out of the old city center, supported by the commercial links between the port of Gijón and the American colonies. In the 18th century, due to

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