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{{Infobox settlement
| name                    = L'Escala
| settlement_type         = [[Municipalities of Catalonia|Municipality]]
| official_name           = <!-- if different from name -->
| image_skyline           = LEscala.jpg
| image_alt               =
| image_caption           =
| image_flag              = Bandera de l'Escala.svg
| image_shield            = Escut de l'Escala.svg
| nickname                =
| motto                   =
| image_map               = Localització de l'Escala.png
| map_caption             =
| pushpin_map             = Spain Province of Girona#Spain
| pushpin_label_position  =
| pushpin_map_caption     = Location in Catalonia
| subdivision_type        = Country
| subdivision_name        = {{flag|Spain}}
| subdivision_type1       = [[Autonomous communities of Spain|Autonomous community]]
| subdivision_name1       = {{flag|Catalonia}}
| subdivision_type2       = [[Provinces of Spain|Province]]
| subdivision_name2       = [[Province of Girona|Girona]]
| subdivision_type3       = [[Comarques of Catalonia|Comarca]]
| subdivision_name3       = [[Alt Empordà]]
| seat_type               = <!-- [[Capital (political)|Capital]] -->
| seat                    =
| coordinates             = {{coord|42.114|3.139|region:ES_type:city|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_footnotes   =
| elevation_m             = 14
| elevation_min_m         =
| elevation_max_m         =
| area_footnotes          =<ref name=idescat>{{cite web|url=http://www.idescat.cat/emex/?lang=en&id=170622|title=El municipi en xifres: L'Escala|publisher=[[Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya|Statistical Institute of Catalonia]]|access-date=2015-11-23}}</ref>
| area_total_km2          = 16.3
| established_title       = <!-- Founded -->
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| population_footnotes    = {{Spain metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
| population_total        = {{Spain metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
| population_demonym      = escalenc/escalenca
| population_note         =
| population_density_km2  = auto
| blank_name_sec1         = [[Languages of Spain|Official language(s)]]
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| timezone                = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset              = +1
| timezone_DST            = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST          = +2
| postal_code_type        = [[List of postal codes in Spain|Postal code]]
| postal_code             = 17130
| area_code_type          = [[Telephone numbers in Spain|Dialing code]]
| area_code               =
| leader_title            = [[Alcalde]]
| leader_name             = Josep Bofill (PSC)(2023)<ref name=municat>{{cite web|url=http://aplicacions.municat.gencat.cat/index.php?page=consulta&mostraEns=1706220002|title=Ajuntament de l'Escala|publisher=[[Generalitat of Catalonia]]|access-date=2015-11-13}}</ref>
| leader_party            = 
| website                 = {{URL|lescala-empuries.com}}
| footnotes               =
}}
'''L'Escala''' ({{IPA|ca|ləsˈkalə}}) is a [[municipality]] in the [[Comarques of Catalonia|''comarca'']] of the [[Alt Empordà]] in [[Province of Girona|Girona]], [[Catalonia]], Spain. It is situated on the [[Costa Brava]], located between the southern end of the Gulf of Roses and Cala (bay) Montgó. It is an important [[fishing]] port and tourist centre, and has a festival dedicated to its famous [[anchovies]]. The GE-513 road runs inland from the town.

The ''Alfolí de la Sal'', also known as the ''Pòsit Vell'', is a seventeenth-century [[warehouse]] formerly used to store the [[salt]] necessary to preserve fish landed at the port: it is now a protected historic-artistic monument. The ruins of [[Empúries]] are located on the territory of the municipality, with [[Phoenicia]]n and 
[[Ancient Rome|Roman]] remains dating from 580 BC.

L'Escala is the village of [[Caterina Albert|Víctor Català (pseudonym of Caterina Albert, 1869-1966)]] a famous [[novelist]].

The [[GR 92]] long distance footpath, which roughly follows the length of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, passes through L'Escala on its stage between [[Sant Martí d'Empúries]] and [[Torroella de Montgrí]].<ref name=mapcbnord>{{cite map |title=Empordà Costa Brava - Nord |scale=1:30,000 |publisher=Editorial PIOLET i Consell Comarcal del Baix Empordà |date=March 2012}}</ref>

== Demography ==
{| class="wikitable" 
|-
! width="15%" | 1900
! width="15%" | 1930
! width="15%" | 1950
! width="15%" | 1970
! width="15%" | 1986
! width="15%" | 2001
! width="15%" | 2009
|-
| align="center" | 2515
| align="center" | 2462
| align="center" | 2475
| align="center" | 3117
| align="center" | 4721
| align="center" | 5823
| align="center" | 10.140
|-
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* Panareda Clopés, Josep Maria; Rios Calvet, Jaume; Rabella Vives, Josep Maria (1989). ''Guia de Catalunya'', Barcelona: Caixa de Catalunya. {{ISBN|84-87135-01-3}} (Spanish). {{ISBN|84-87135-02-1}} (Catalan).

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160620034727/http://noticies.lescala-empuries.com/ Official site]
* [http://aplicacions.municat.gencat.cat/index.php?page=consulta&mostraEns=1706220002 Government data pages] {{in lang|ca}}

{{Geographic location
|Centre = L'Escala
|N  = [[Sant Pere Pescador]]
|NE = ''[[Mediterranean Sea]]''
|E  = 
|SE = [[Torroella de Montgrí]]
|S  = 
|SW = [[Bellcaire d'Empordà]]
|W  = [[Viladamat]]<br>[[Albons]]
|NW = [[L'Armentera]]<br>[[Ventalló]]
}}
{{Alt Emporda}}
{{Municipalities in Girona|state=autocollapse}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Escala, La}}
[[Category:Municipalities in Alt Empordà]]
[[Category:Populated places in Alt Empordà]]
[[Category:Tourism in Spain]]
[[Category:Seaside resorts in Spain]]