Alcover

For the pharmaceutical with the brand name Alcover, see sodium oxybate.

Alcover
Municipality
Carrer del Rec, with the Church of the Assumption in the background
Coat of arms
Alcover Location in Catalonia
Coordinates: 41°16′N 1°10′E
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Catalonia
Province	Tarragona
Comarca	Alt Camp
Government
• Mayor	Robert Figueras Roca
Area
• Total	46.0 km2 (17.8 sq mi)
Elevation	243 m (797 ft)
Population  (2025-01-01)
• Total	5,362
• Density	117/km2 (302/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	alcoverenc, alcoverenca
Postal code	43460–43461
Website	alcover.cat

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Alcover (Catalan pronunciation: [əlkuˈβe]) is a municipality in the Alt Camp comarca, in the Province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. It lies at the meeting point of the Camp de Tarragona plain and the foothills of the Prades Mountains, near the valley of the Glorieta. The municipality covers 46.0 km² (17.8 sq mi) and has a population of 5,362 (register office, 2025) .

The territory has archaeological evidence of occupation from prehistory through the Iberian, Roman and late antique periods. Medieval Alcover developed within the lordship of the Archdiocese of Tarragona, and by the late Middle Ages had become a fortified market town. The municipality preserves a substantial historic centre, Renaissance and Baroque architecture, and an important palaeontological collection based on the Middle Triassic Alcover-Mont-ral fossil site.