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Fígols
Municipality
Santa Cecília de Fígols.JPG
Flag of Fígols
Flag
Coat of arms of Fígols
Coat of arms
Fígols is located in Province of Barcelona
Fígols
Fígols
Location in Province of Barcelona
Fígols is located in Spain
Fígols
Fígols
Location in Spain
Country  Spain
Community  Catalonia
Province Barcelona
Comarca Berguedà
Area
 • Total 29.3 km2 (11.3 sq mi)
Elevation
1,154 m (3,786 ft)
Population
 (2018)
 • Total 42
 • Density 1.433/km2 (3.71/sq mi)
Demonym(s) Figolenc, figolenca

Fígols (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈfiɣuls]) is a municipality in the comarca of the Berguedà in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated to the north of Cercs, in the mountains above the Llobregat valley. Deposits of lignite are extracted commercially.

Nearby is the Cercs Mine Museum.

The guerrilla leader Ramon Vila Capdevila - last of the Spanish Maquis, who held out from the end of the Spanish Civil War until being killed in 1963 - is buried in Fígols. On 15 July 2000, a plaque was placed at the burial site of Vila which reads

Here lie the remains of Ramon Vila Capdevila. Militant of the CNT and the last of the Catalan anarchist maquis, he was involved in the proclamation of libertarian communism (1932), the civil war (1936-39), and the French Resistance (1939-45) and, for a further 18 years, the fight against Francoism. In memory of him and of all who gave their lives for freedom and the anarchist ideal

—Castellnou, The Libertarian Movement, 15 July 2000

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Demography

1900 1930 1950 1970 1986 2007
219 324 314 66 38 49

See also

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