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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 334 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FIGUERAS , a See also:

town of See also:north-eastern See also:Spain, in the See also:province of See also:Gerona, 14 M. S. of the See also:French frontier, on the See also:Barcelona-See also:Perpignan railway. Pop. (1900) 10,714. Figueras is built at the See also:foot of the See also:Pyrenees, and on the See also:northern edge of El Ampurdan, a fertile and well-irrigated See also:plain,which produces See also:wine, See also:olives and See also:rice,and derives its name from the seaport of Ampurias, the See also:ancient Emporiae. The See also:castle of See also:San Fernando, 1 m.N.W., is an irregular pentagonal structure, built by See also:order of See also:Ferdinand VI. (1746-1759), on the site of a Capuchin See also:convent. Owing to its situation, and the rocky nature of the ground over which a besieger must advance, it is still serviceable as the See also:key to the frontier. It affords See also:accommodation for 16,000 men and is well provided with See also:bomb-See also:proof See also:cover. In 1794 Figueras was surrendered to the French, but it was regained in 1795. During the See also:Peninsular See also:War it was taken by the French in 1808, re-captured by the Spaniards in 1811, and retaken by the French in the same See also:year. In 1823, after a See also:long See also:defence, it was once more captured by the French.

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annual See also:pilgrimage from Figueras to the See also:chapel of Nuestra Senora de See also:Requesens, 15 M. N., commemorates the deliverance of the town from a severe epidemic of See also:fever in 1612.

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