Miravet

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Miravet
Location in Catalonia
Coordinates: 41°2′N0°36′E / 41.033°N 0.600°E / 41.033; 0.600 Coordinates: 41°2′N0°36′E / 41.033°N 0.600°E / 41.033; 0.600
Country Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Community Flag of Catalonia.svg  Catalonia
Province Bandera actual de la provincia de Tarragona.svg   Tarragona
Comarca Ribera d'Ebre
Government
   Mayor Antoni Borrell Vives (2015) [1]
Area
[2]
  Total32.3 km2 (12.5 sq mi)
Population
 (2018) [3]
  Total706
  Density22/km2 (57/sq mi)
Website www.miravet.cat

Miravet is a municipality in the comarca of Ribera d'Ebre in the Province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

The village and the castle was founded by the Moors and rebuilt by the Knights Templar and transformed into a fortress-monastery, after the conquest of 1153. It is considered to be the largest fortified complex in Catalonia[ citation needed ], and one of the best examples of Romanesque, religious and military, architecture of the Templar order in the whole Western world.[ citation needed ]

Ebre in Miravet Spain Ebre river in Miravet.jpg
Ebre in Miravet

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References

  1. "Ajuntament de Miravet". Generalitat of Catalonia . Retrieved 2015-11-13.
  2. "El municipi en xifres: Miravet". Statistical Institute of Catalonia . Retrieved 2015-11-23.
  3. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.