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Situated in the northeast of Catalonia, Spain, Girona is the capital of the Spanih province of the Catalan comarca of the Girones. In the year 2005 it was recorded that the city has a total population of 86,672.

The Iberians were the first to inhabit the city. Girona is at the confluence of Ter and Onyar rivers. It has undergone twenty-five sieges and was captured seven times. Girona is mountainous with nice pine forests, oak and chestnut and many mineral springs. In the early times, it is said that Paul and James, who were the apostles of Christ, arrived in the Iberian Peninsula and was able to preach Christianity there.

Inside the city, one will find the ancient cathedral that stood on the site of the present one and was used by the Moors as their mosque. It was then rebuilt and remodeled just after the Moors’ final expulsion. There is also the Collegiate Church of Sant Feliu which has a style made in the fourteenth century.

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