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Housing Units (2000): 690
Land area (2000): 1.193350 sq. miles (3.090761 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.193350 sq. miles (3.090761 sq. km)
FIPS code: 79708
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 39.444343 N, 79.544002 W
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Terra Alta
Wikipedia
Terra Alta (, ) is a sparsely populated inland comarca (county) in Catalonia, Spain. Its capital is Gandesa. It is also known as Castellania, a name dating back to its medieval status as a fiefdom held by the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem under the Crown of Aragon.
Terra Alta is a Spanish Denominación de Origen (DO) (Denominació d’Origen in Catalan) for wines located in the west of the province of Tarragona ( Catalonia, Spain) and covers 12 inland municipalities. As the name indicates (Terra Alta = High Land) the area is in the mountains. It is of great natural beauty and features in many of Picasso’s paintings.
Traditionally, due to its geographical isolation, this area traditionally only made wine for local consumption and has only recently started to produce modern Mediterranean style wines.
Several cooperative wineries were designed and built in the 1920s by Cèsar Martinell, a student of Antoni Gaudí, and are notable for their modernist architectural style.
Terra Alta may refer to:
- Terra Alta (comarca)
- Terra Alta, West Virginia
- Terra Alta (DO)
- Terra Alta Apartments
- Terra Alta Bank