Irún

Irun
Coat of Arms
Vigilantiae Custos
Location
Coordinates : 43°20′16.13″N 1°47′19.72″W / 43.3378139°N 1.7888111°W / 43.3378139; -1.7888111
Administration
Country	Spain
Autonomous Community	Basque Country
Province	Gipuzkoa (Basque) Guipúzcoa (Spanish)
Comarca	Bajo Bidasoa
Mayor	José Antonio Santano Clavero (PSE-EE)
Geography
Land Area	42,40 km2
Altitude	from 5 to 825 m AMSL
Population
Population	64.000 (2009)
Density	1404,65 hab./km2 (2005)
General information
Native name	Irun (Basque)
Spanish name	Ciudad de Irún
Founded	Feb 28 1776
Time zone	CET (GMT +1)
- summer	CEST (GMT +2)
Postal code	20.300-20.305
Website	http://www.irun.org/

Irun (old Basque for 'fortified town', Spanish: Irún) is a town of the Bidasoa-Txingudi region in the province of Guipúzcoa (Basque: Gipuzkoa) in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. Nowadays it is widely accepted by the historic researcher community that Irun is the ancient Basque Roman town of Oiasso on account of the vestiges (port, factory, etc.) disclosed lately in the historic nucleus of Irun, while the name itself may have applied to the whole surrounding area.

Ayuntamiento of Irún

One of the biggest towns in Guipúzcoa, its border town situation (it is located on the border between Spain and France, across the Bidasoa river from Hendaye), has made Irun into a commercial and logistic centre, with important railway infrastructure, where the SNCF 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+¹⁄₂ in) standard gauge rails meet the 1,668 mm (5 ft 5⁵⁄₆ in) broad gauge Renfe ones. The city is usually used to cross from France to Spain by ETA guerrillas. Currently Irun features a fair ground provided with modern exhibition and telecommunication facilities just at some 100 metres away from the actual borderline at the Santiago Bridge (river Bidasoa).

Irun is part of the conurbation of Txingudi bay with Hondarribia and Hendaye, the town being also involved in the Eurocité Basque Bayonne-San Sebastián.

One of its main festivals is the Alarde, a parade recreating an episode of the Peninsula War.

People from Irun

• Luis Mariano, singer in French.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Irun

• Website of Ficoba fair ground
• Irun municipal government website
• Eurocite Basque's official page
• sanmarciales.com website dedicated to the SanMarciales and the Alarde of San Marcial.
• sanmarcial.eu site dedicated to the Alarde of San Marcial the main festivity in town.
• IRUN in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa) (Spanish)
• Oiasso Roman Museum

Coordinates: 43°20.29′N 1°47.35′W / 43.33817°N 1.78917°W / 43.33817; -1.78917

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