About the Airport Spain

Introduction

Coruna airport Spain is situated in La Coruna city in Spain. Coruna city is the second largest city in Spain and a provincial capital. It has also served as a political capital of the kingdom of Galicia from the 16th to the 19th centuries and a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982. Coruna city is also a busy port located at estuary in a large gulf on the Atlantic ocean. It provides a distribution point for agricultural goods from the region. Coruna city has an oil refinery too. Coruna airport was formerly known as Alvedro Airport and it serves the Galicia city in northwestern Spain. It is 7 km for the city center. In the year 2011, I,012,800 passengers used the airport.

History

Coruna city where the Coruna spain airport is located has a long history, and the oldest part known as cidade vella built on an ancient celtic castro. It was supposedly inhabited by the artabrians, the celtic tribe of the area. The Romans came to this town in the 2nd century BC, and made the most strategic position and soon the city became quite important in maritime. In 62 BC Julius Caesar came to the city in pursuit of metal trade and established commerce. This town began growing during the 1st and 2nd centuries but declined after the 4th century. Coruna had a commercial port connected to foreign countries and this city became an important port and centre for the manufacturing of textiles. At the beginning of 20th century Coruna had about 45,000 inhabitants. Today the municipality of Coruna has 246,047 inhabitants and has one of the highest population densities of Spain with about 6,700 inhabitants per square kilometer. The Coruna airport Spain was constructed through the order of council of ministers of Spain to serve the city of Coruna in 1953. The airport was completed and inaugurated on 25 may 1963 when the first commercial airliner arrived from Madrid

Features

The Coruna city has several important features like the Coruna airport Spain, also a site of the Roman Tower of Hercules which is a lighthouse that has been in operation for nearly 2,000 years. Its surrounded by big park which has a golf course, bike lane, a sculpture and many others. There is also Maria Pita Square, the most important square in the city. We have the part of Coruna city called Old town which is the older part of this city. Coruna city has several museums such as Castle of San Anton, Fine art Museum and other network of scientific museums. There is also Mount of San Pedro Park, a former military area, with spectacular views over the city and one can get there by road or through an elevator from the promenade. Coruna airport Spain has radio and electric monitoring facilities, runway, instrument landing system, custom office and an expanded terminal building and also an expanded parking facilities.

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