Castropol
Municipality in Asturias, Spain
Castropol is a municipality in Asturias, Spain. It is also the name of a parish within the municipality and a town within the parish.
The municipality of Castropol has a population of 3696 (INE, 2014). It is bounded on the north by the Cantabrian Sea and on the west by a coastal inlet, or ria, which separates it from the municipality of Ribadeo in Galicia, called the river Eo. To the west it is bordered by Tapia de Casariego, by El Franco, Boal and other Asturian municipalities, and to the south by Vegadeo and Villanueva de Oscos.
Castropol is one of the municipalities in which Eonaviego, a Galician-Asturian dialect, is spoken.
Some examples of notable architecture include the 'Capilla del Campo' (15th century), the 'Palacio de Valledor' and 'Palacio de Marqueses de Santa Cruz de Marcenado' (16th-18th centuries, the 'Casa de las Cuatro Torres' (18th century), and the 'Parque de Vicente Loriente' and 'Casino/Casa de Cultura' (early 20th century).
01Parishes
It has nine parishes (administrative divisions):
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Castropol desde la Lieira.JPG by No machine-readable author provided. Buron444 assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain
- Monumento FV.JPG by Unknown author, Public domain
- Playa Penarronda (Asturias).jpg by Lindah, CC BY 2.0
- Castropol (RPS 22-07-2020) visto desde Ribadeo.png by Raimundo Pastor, CC BY-SA 4.0
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