Gerona capital; Independent community Catalonia; Catalan and Spanish official language; Total surface Lugar nº 40 5,910 km ²; % of Spain 1.17%; Total population (2005) 664.506; % of Spain 1.51%; Lugar density nº 22112.44 hab. /km ²; Gerundense Gentilicio. Gerona (official denomination and in Catalan, Girona), is a province of Spain, in the North part of Catalonia. It limits with the provinces of Barcelona and Lérida, and with France and the Mediterranean Sea.
The province has 663,793 inhabitants (2005). Its capital is Gerona, where a little lives more on the eighth part of the total population. Part of the territory of Gerona, the municipality of Llivia, is an enclave separated of the rest of Spain and surrounded by France. The old helmet of Girona, heart of the Roman city primigenia of Gerunda, contains all the more excellent artistic patrimony of the city and is surrounded by immense linen cloths of wall that can be crossed by the Archaeological Stroll and the Passeig of the Wall, with beautiful viewpoint on the city. Very characteristic of Gerona they are the houses hung on the Oñar river, These colorful houses constructed throughout the centuries next to the river offer a splendid image of a small Mediterranean city. Within the crossroads of medieval alleys it emphasizes the Judería, the Call, where it lived until end of century XV one reduced community. One is one of the medieval nuclei better conserved of Europe. It emphasizes in him the Center Bonastruc Ça Porta, old the possible synagogue turned today training center. Alongside North of the center is the Montjuïc, or mounts of the Jews.
In the Seat of the Cathedral they are important the Pastors House, a Renaissance building present Palace of Justice, and the Pia Almoina. In this seat it is the Cathedral or Santa Maria, constructed between the centuries XI-XVIII and that offer four architectonic styles: Romanesque, gothic, Renaissance and baroque. In addition to other civil constructions like the House of l'Ardiaca and the Episcopal Palace, the old helmet account with representative religious constructions, like the church of Sant Pere de Galligants or the Basilica of Sant Feliu. The route by the old district can conclude in the Passeig Arqueològic, with the towers Júlia and Cornèlia; and the Arab Baths, characterized by its superior cupulada lantern, at the end of the stroll. Also in center is the University of Gerona.