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Lloret de Mar

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Lloret de Mar is a Mediterranean coastal city in Catalonia, Spain. One of the maximum famous holiday accommodations at the Costa Brava, it's far 40 kilometres south of Girona and 75 kilometres northeast of Barcelona. With a population of 39,363 in 2009, it's far the second biggest town in the Selva comarca of Catalonia. Lloret de Mar draws summer time visitors on bundle tours. Its main seaside length: 1,630 m; width: gravel-like stones is one of the most famous Costa Brava seashores and is continuously awarded the Blue Flag for cleanliness.

There are historic remains of Iberian and Roman civilisations at diverse archeological sites. The first written references to Lloret de Mar may be found in documents from 966 as Loredo from the Latin word "lauretum" bay laurel. Like many Mediterranean coastal towns, Lloret changed into often invaded via the Saracens in the Middle Ages. It is said that the conventional Ball de Placa the Dance inside the Town Square dates from this period. Until the 15th century, the metropolis’s centre changed into positioned one kilometre inland, subsequent to the Chapel of Les Alegries the city’s foremost church before the Church of Sant Roma turned into built to protect itself from attacks from English, French, Turkish and Algerian pirates.

Lloret’s port have become commercially important inside the 18th century. It not exists however the Garriga Houses built by Indianos, wealthy returning Spanish immigrants to the Americas, remind us of this affluent technology. The excessive monetary level that were executed in sure sectors of the population of Lloret led to the demolition of the vintage homes and the rise of small neoclassical palaces, modernist or eclectic.

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