N-II was the former name for the Route Nacional from
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...
to
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...
and
France
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. According to the new
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
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Other places
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roads nomenclature, the sections which have been already enhanced and upgraded to ''autovía'' have been recently renamed to
A-2
A2, A02, A002, A², A.II or A-2 may refer to:
Biology and medicine
* British NVC community A2 (Lemna minor community), a plant community
* A2, the second anal vein in the Comstock-Needham system of insect wing segment naming
Genes and proteins
* ...
, whereas the sections still not upgraded (
Zaragoza
Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...
-
Fraga
Fraga (; ) is the major town of the ''comarca'' of Bajo Cinca ( ca, Baix Cinca) in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. It is located by the river Cinca. According to the 2014 census, Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) the municipality ...
and
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...
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French border sections) keep the old name N-II.
At the
French border, near
La Jonquera, the route links to the French
N9.
Most of the traffic formerly carried by the road now takes the
A-7 and
A-2
A2, A02, A002, A², A.II or A-2 may refer to:
Biology and medicine
* British NVC community A2 (Lemna minor community), a plant community
* A2, the second anal vein in the Comstock-Needham system of insect wing segment naming
Genes and proteins
* ...
''
autovía
An ''autovía'' is one of two classes of major highway in the Spanish road system similar to a British motorway or an American freeway. It is akin to the autopista, the other major highway class, but has fewer features and is never a toll roa ...
''.
The road is still in the process of being fully dualled but already by-passes the major towns of
Girona
Girona (officially and in Catalan , Spanish: ''Gerona'' ) is a city in northern Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 103,369 in 2020. Girona is the capital ...
and
Figueres
Figueres (, ; , es, Figueras, ) is the capital of the ''comarca'' of Alt Empordà, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
The town is the birthplace of artist Salvador Dalí, and houses the Teatre-Museu Gala Salvador Dalí, a large museu ...
.
Monument
Near Girona there is a monument at the side of the road in the memory of a worker dead when building the road.
References
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N-II
N-II was the former name for the Route Nacional from Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million ...
N-II
N-II was the former name for the Route Nacional from Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million ...