Fuenterrabía Casas in the ward of the port

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Fuenterrabía Casas in the ward of the port

Fuenterrabía is a municipality and location of almost 16.000 inhabiting in the east of the province of Guipúzcoa, to a few 20 km eastwards of the capital, saint Sebastián, in the mouth of the Bidasoa river, that does of natural frontier with France (Hendaya) .Es a location of tourist character and residential. In it finds to him the airport of saint Sebastián.The Basque name of the location, Hondarribia, has the meaning of the ford of a river of sand, name that it is perfectly identifiable for a contemporary |vascoparlante| and that moreover, to say-so of the historians, it could have report with the configuration of the space in which was incoming to him the population. along the history it beens written to him of diverse manners, as Hundarribia, Ondarribia, or Ondarrabia. The streaked more ancient mention date of the XII century, by appearing for first time in the current form in a document of ends of the XVIII century. At present, when speaking colloquial in Basque, your inhabitants call to your Honddarbi city ( pronounce Onyarbi ), that it is a syncopated form of Hondarribia.Taking by JMSE on 6th July 2003 ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuenterrab%C3 %ADa |http|

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