Ferrol is an Atlantic-facing city in the Province of A Coruña in Galicia in north-western Spain. Today, is best known for the Navantia shipbuilding yards and for having been the capital of the Spanish Navy's Maritime Department of the North since the time of the early Bourbons of Spain. Before that, in the 17th century, Ferrol was the most important arsenal in Europe. The city was the birthplace of the Spanish General Francisco Franco in 1892, and was officially known as El Ferrol del Caudillo from 1938 to 1982. It was also the birth place of the founder of the spanish socialist party PSOE, Pablo Iglesias, in 1850. Ferrol has a population of 77,859 and its metropolitan area (i.e., the urban area plus all the satellite towns known as Ferrolterra) has a population of over 213,000 (2007).
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