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Ponferrada (Spanish pronunciation: [poɱfeˈraða]) is a city of Spain, located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Ponferrada, the second most populated municipality of the Province of León , is also the capital city of El Bierzo , the only comarca recognized as an administrative entity by law in the region.
Ponferrada es un municipio y ciudad española de la provincia de León, en la comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León. Se encuentra en la comarca del Bierzo, de la cual es capital. Geografía [ editar] Panorámica. Fragmento de la hoja 158 del Mapa Topográfico Nacional de España de 2002 en la que se representa Ponferrada.
Ponferrada, capital of the region of El Bierzo, is one of the major staging posts on the Pilgrim's Road to Santiago de Compostela as it passes through the province of León. The historic quarter of this town sits below an imposing castle built by the Knights Templar.
Ponferrada is a city on the confluence of the rivers Sil and Boeza in the province of Léon in Spain. It is about a hundred kilometers west of Léon. Explore Ponferrada. Under Roman times this area became the largest gold mining area in the whole of the Roman Empire.
Castle of Ponferrada. The castle consists of a lar polygonal enclosure (more than 8,000 m2) with double and triple battlements, turrets, rooms and a large low courtyard or albacar. It was one of the largest fortress of north-western Spain during the Middle Ages.
Discover the history of Los Templarios Castle. Contact information and map. Find out what to see and do in Ponferrada | spain.info.
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Ponferrada, city, León provincia (province), in the Castile-León comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), northwestern Spain. It lies at the confluence of the Sil and Boeza rivers, west of the city of León. Identified with the Roman Interamnium Flavium, Ponferrada was refounded in the 11th.
