Ripoll

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The first traces of humans inhabiting the area date from the Bronze Age and can be seen in form of dolmens such as those found in El Sot de Dones Mortes or in Pardinella. This area was later used by peoples from the Atlantic culture to store bronze weapons and as a passway from the Catalan Central Depression to the Pyrenees. The area also has tombs from the late Roman occupation age and some belonging to the Visigoths.

It has a famous Benedictine monastery built in the Romanesque style, Santa Maria de Ripoll, founded by the count Wilfred the Hairy in 879. The count used it as a centre to repopulate the region after conquering it. In the High Middle Ages, its castle, the Castle of Saguardia, located in the county of Les Llosses was ruled by the Saguàrdia family, of which Ponç de la Guàrdia was a famous troubadour.

An abundance of coal and iron ore, coupled with the ample water supply of the rivers Ter and Freser, encouraged a metal-working industry in the early Middle Ages. The furnaces of Ripoll were a prime source of nails for the peninsula. Later, pole arms and crossbows, always in demand, were added to Ripoll's exports. Ripoll enjoyed a reputation throughout Europe for the production of firearms. That success as a manufactory of firearms brought frequent trouble to the city. French invasions in 1794, 1809, 1812, and 1813 crippled the city industries. However, the final and utter destruction of Ripoll, resulting from mines and blasting, occurred in 1839 during the Carlist Wars. Due to the loss of records and archives, not much is known of Ripoll and its industry to this day.

Ripoll has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfa) bordering on an oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb) with cool winters and warm to hot summers. As in many areas of the province of Girona, rainfall is well distributed throughout the year. During the winter, temperatures below {{convert|-5|C|F}} are common, although there may be some winters in which they do not occur.{{cite web |url =https://www.aemet.es/es/serviciosclimaticos/datosclimatologicos/valoresclimatologicos |title=Valores climatologicos normales|publisher=Aemet.es|access-date = 4 December 2024}}

{{Weather box|location = Ripoll (1991–2020), extremes (1989-present)

|metric first = Yes

|single line = Yes

|Jan record high C = 21.0

|Feb record high C = 23.0

|Mar record high C = 25.7

|Apr record high C = 30.8

|May record high C = 34.1

|Jun record high C = 40.6

|Jul record high C = 40.0

|Aug record high C = 38.0

|Sep record high C = 33.2

|Oct record high C = 30.4

|Nov record high C = 24.3

|Dec record high C = 19.5

|year record high C =

|Jan high C = 10.3

|Feb high C = 11.8

|Mar high C = 15.3

|Apr high C = 18.0

|May high C = 22.5

|Jun high C = 26.7

|Jul high C = 30.2

|Aug high C = 29.0

|Sep high C = 23.9

|Oct high C = 19.3

|Nov high C = 14.1

|Dec high C = 10.5

|year high C =

|Jan mean C = 4.0

|Feb mean C = 5.0

|Mar mean C = 8.1

|Apr mean C = 10.7

|May mean C = 14.8

|Jun mean C = 19.0

|Jul mean C = 22.0

|Aug mean C = 21.2

|Sep mean C = 16.9

|Oct mean C = 13.0

|Nov mean C = 8.1

|Dec mean C = 4.6

|year mean C =

|Jan low C = -2.4

|Feb low C = -1.8

|Mar low C = 0.9

|Apr low C = 3.4

|May low C = 7.0

|Jun low C = 11.2

|Jul low C = 13.8

|Aug low C = 13.4

|Sep low C = 9.9

|Oct low C = 6.7

|Nov low C = 2.0

|Dec low C = -1.3

|year low C =

|Jan record low C = -13.7

|Feb record low C = -12.8

|Mar record low C = -11.3

|Apr record low C = -5.0

|May record low C = -2.0

|Jun record low C = 0.5

|Jul record low C = 4.0

|Aug record low C = 3.5

|Sep record low C = -0.5

|Oct record low C = -5.1

|Nov record low C = -10.2

|Dec record low C = -13.3

|year record low C =

|precipitation colour = green

|Jan precipitation mm = 40.3

|Feb precipitation mm = 33.4

|Mar precipitation mm = 48.7

|Apr precipitation mm = 72.4

|May precipitation mm = 85.9

|Jun precipitation mm = 113.3

|Jul precipitation mm = 70.1

|Aug precipitation mm = 96.2

|Sep precipitation mm = 94.3

|Oct precipitation mm = 71.2

|Nov precipitation mm = 61.1

|Dec precipitation mm = 48.6

|year precipitation mm =

|Jan precipitation days = 4.4

|Feb precipitation days = 4.2

|Mar precipitation days = 5.7

|Apr precipitation days = 8.4

|May precipitation days = 8.2

|Jun precipitation days = 8.4

|Jul precipitation days = 7.3

|Aug precipitation days = 8.8

|Sep precipitation days = 7.3

|Oct precipitation days = 6.6

|Nov precipitation days = 5.4

|Dec precipitation days = 3.8

|year precipitation days =

|unit precipitation days = 1 mm

|source 1 = Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia{{cite web |url =https://www.aemet.es/es/datos_abiertos/AEMET_OpenData |title=AEMET OpenData|publisher=Aemet.es|access-date = 4 December 2024}}

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Ripoll is over 5% Muslim, predominately of Moroccan origin, who arrived in the 1990s to work in industrial factories.{{Cite news |last=Watts |first=Jonathan |date=2017-08-22 |title='These boys were raised among us': terror cell town reels after Catalonia attacks |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/22/spain-attacks-these-boys-were-raised-among-us-the-town-where-terror-cell-was-born |access-date=2023-07-03 |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |last=Rodríguez |first=Jordi Pérez Colomé, Patricia Ortega Dolz, Marta |date=2017-08-21 |title=Why did “well-integrated” Moroccans carry out Barcelona terror attack? |url=https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/08/20/inenglish/1503229267_859569.html |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=EL PAÍS English |language=en}}

• Eudald Domènech i Riera

• Ethnographic Museum of Ripoll

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{{Reflist}}

• {{Official website|http://www.ajripoll.cat}}
• [http://aplicacions.municat.gencat.cat/index.php?page=consulta&mostraEns=1714790004 Government data pages] {{in lang|ca}}
• [https://besidestheobvious.net/2021/03/24/what-to-do-in-ripoll-the-cradle-of-catalonia/ Ripoll, the cradle of Catalonia] {{in lang|en}}

{{Geographic location

|Centre = Ripoll

|N = Ogassa

|NE = Sant Joan de les Abadesses

|E = Vallfogona de Ripollès

|SE = Vidrà

|S = Santa Maria de Besora

|SW =

|W = Les Llosses

|NW = Campdevànol

}}

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Category:Populated places in Ripollès