Terrassa
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Location
Coordinates : 41°33′40, N°2′0 Time zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer : CEST (GMT +2)
General information
Native name	Terrassa (Catalan)
Spanish name	Terrassa
Postal code	08221-08229
Area code	+34 (Spain) + 93 (Barcelona)
Website	http://www.terrassa.cat/
Administration
Country	Spain
Autonomous Community	Catalonia
Province	Barcelona
Comarca	Vallès Occidental
Administrative Divisions	6
Neighborhoods	38
Mayor	Pere Navarro (PSC)
Geography
Land Area	70. Catalan ˈkætəˌlæn ( català kətəˈla or) is a Romance language, the national and official language of Andorra, and a co-official A postal code (known in various countries as a post code, postcode, or ZIP code) is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The term administration, as used in the context of Government, differs according to Jurisdiction. In Political geography and International politics, a country is a Political division of a geographical entity Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. An autonomous community is a first-level political division of the Kingdom of Spain, established in accordance with the Spanish Constitution. Catalonia (Cataluña Catalunya Aranese: Catalonha) is an Autonomous Community in the northeast part of Spain. In addition to its autonomous communities, Spain is divided into fifty Provinces. Barcelona is a province of eastern Spain, in the center of the autonomous community of Catalonia. A comarca (meaning Shire or County, Spanish and Portuguese plural comarcas, Catalan plural Vallès Occidental is a comarca (county in Catalonia, Spain. It is unique among the comarques in that the two cities Sabadell and A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government Socialists' Party of Catalonia (Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya PSC is a Political party in Catalonia, Spain. Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 2 km²
Altitude	286 m AMSL
Population
Population	202,136 (2007)
- rank in Spain:	25
Density	2,879 hab. Altitude is the Elevation of a point or object from a known level or datum (plural data The term above mean sea level ( AMSL) refers to the Elevation (on the ground or Altitude (in the Air) of any object relative to the In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology The density of a material is defined as its Mass per unit Volume: \rho = \frac{m}{V} Different materials usually have different /km² (2007)

Terrassa is a Spanish city, the fourth in Catalonia according to the number of the inhabitants. Located in the northeastern region of Catalonia, the town is in the plain of Vallès Occidental of which it is the co-capital and the largest city. Vallès Occidental is a comarca (county in Catalonia, Spain. It is unique among the comarques in that the two cities Sabadell and Its area of influence reaches more than one quarter of million people.

Situation

The Masia Freixa of Terrassa, see of parabolic archs

Castle of Vallparadís

The city is located at the Catalan Prelitoral depression (Depressió Prelitoral), to the feet of the Prelitoral mountain range (Natural reserve of Sant Llorenç del Munt), the average altitude of the city is 277 meters over sea level. It is 28 and 20 kilometres from Barcelona and Montserrat respectively. Barcelona ( Catalan bəɾsəˈlonə Spanish baɾθeˈlona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia This is the mountain in Catalonia For other uses see Montserrat (disambiguation.

History

The found vestiges indicate that the zone where Terrassa is placed was inhabited since prehistory. The year 2005, during the building work of a tunnel for one of the railway lines of the city, was found in the Park of Vallparadís[1] a prehistoric site with stone tools and fossils of hunted animals of an antiquity among 800,000 and 1,000,000 years, which implies this is one of the oldest prehistoric sites in Europe. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Terrassa has the origin in the old Roman municipality of Egara (Municipium Flavium Egara) founded during the time of the emperor Vespasian (69-79 bc) placed alongside the torrent of Vallparadís (nowadays an urban park) close to old Iberian town of Egosa, from where was found some ceramic and coins. Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Vespasian ( November 17 9 &ndash June 23 79) was a Roman Emperor who 69 (sex position & book by Ryu Murakami are -- already linked by "" with other meanings Year 79 was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Julian calendar. The Iberians were a set of peoples that Greek and Roman sources (among others Hecataeus of Miletus, Avienus, Herodot and Strabo

Towards the half of the 5th century, in 450, the episcopal see of Ègara already was there, where was celebrated into 615 a Provincial Council, and there remained until VIIIth century,718, when occurred the Muslim conquest. For the area code see Area code 450. Events By Place Eastern Roman Empire August 25 — Marcian is proclaimed For the area code see Area code 718 Events By Place Europe Tervel 's reign as monarch of The Umayyad conquest of Hispania ( 711 – 718) began as an army of the Umayyad Caliphate consisting largely of Berbers inhabitants At this placement there is today the monumental ensemble of the Visigothic-Romanesque churches of Sant Pere de Terrassa. The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, or Wisi were one of two main branches of the Goths, an East Regional characteristics of Romanesque architecture|Romanesque art Romanesque architecture is the term that is used to describe the architecture of Middle Ages Europe which Other important vestiges of the Middle Ages are the castle of Vallparadis (from the 1344 to the 1413 a Carthusian monks monastery and today a Municipal Museum) and the tower of Palau (of the Castle-Palace of the Count-king). The Carthusian Order, also called the Order of St Bruno, is a Roman Catholic religious order of enclosed monastics.

In the XIXth century the city played an important role in the development of the industrial revolution with a special devotion to wool fabrics, today there is an important art nouveau legacy fruit of the importance that the city obtained. Art Nouveau ( nu vo anglicised /ˈɑːt nuːvəu/ ( French for 'new art' also known as Jugendstil ( German for 'youth style' is an international Buildings style art nouveau like Masia Freixa (1907), the vapor Aymerich Amat i Jover (1907), current Museum of the Science and the Technique of Catalonia, the Principal theater (1920), the Town hall (1902), the house-museum Alegre de Sagrera (1911), the Industrial School (1904), the Gran Casino (1920), the Parc de Desinfecció (1920), or the Independència market (1908) to only quote some of the most excelled. Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar Year 1902 ( MCMII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on Year 1908 ( MCMVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Terrassa is a partner city of the Art nouveau network [2] a European network of co-operation created in 1999 for the study, safeguards and development of the Art nouveau. Réseau Art Nouveau Network was established in 1999 by European cities with a rich Art nouveau heritage. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar)

Demographics

The monumental ensemble of the churches of Sant Pere (Saint Peter)

The three churches were built close to the placement of old Ègara as see of Ègara Diocese, created about the year 450 and which remained until VIIIth century. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Year 1824 ( MDCCCXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Click here for Indian Rebellion of 1857 Year 1857 ( MDCCCLVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Year 1910 ( MCMX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) In many rites of the Roman Catholic Church and in Anglican churches, a diocese is an administrative territorial unit administered by a Bishop. For the area code see Area code 450. Events By Place Eastern Roman Empire August 25 — Marcian is proclaimed The episcopal ensemble follows the Byzantine model of antiquity, with two churches (Sant Pere and Santa Maria) and a baptistery (Sant Miquel). In Christian architecture the baptistery or baptistry ( Latin baptisterium) is the separate centrally-planned structure surrounding the After a long constructive process, the churches are finished in the current manner about the XIth and XIIth centuries and in Romanesque style, are built on old pre-romanesque buildings of the Visigothic time. The walls of Santa Maria keep outstanding artistic pieces, like a museum, there are murals which go from the Romanesque style to the Gothic. See also Gothic art Gothic architecture is a style of Architecture which flourished during the high and late medieval period. There is also an altar stone of Xth century and medieval and romanesque sepulchral stones (in one of them there is written documentation of the name of the Roman town of Egara). In the transept there are three Gothic altarpieces of great value. Full descriptions of the elements of a Gothic floorplan are found at the entry Cathedral diagram. See also Gothic art Gothic architecture is a style of Architecture which flourished during the high and late medieval period. An altarpiece is a picture or Relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the Altar of a church

• Santa Maria (Saint Mary) the old Cathedral
  • Horseshoe shaped apse from VI century
  • Nave from XI century with exterior lombardic decorations
  • Romanesque frescoes of Saint Thomas Becket from XII century
  • Frescoes from XIII century

• Sant Pere (Saint Peter)
  • Transept and apse from IX & X centuries
  • Nave from XII century
  • Mosaic from X century (geometric designs)
  • Stone altarpiece of Sant Pere from X century
  • Gothic frescoes from XIII century

Altarpiece of Sant Abdó i Sant Senen

• Sant Miquel (Saint Michael)
  • Shape in greek cross and walls are the originals from VI century
  • Frescoes from VI and VIII centuries in the apse

• Other outstanding elements
  • Altarpiece of Sant Pere (1411) by Lluís Borrassà
  • Altarpiece of Roser (1587)
  • Altarpiece of Sant Ruf (XVII century)
  • Altarpiece of Sant Miquel (1450-51) by Jaume Cirera & Guillem Talarn
  • Gothic altarpiece of Sant Abdò i Sant Senèn (1460) by Jaume Huguet
  • Polichromed sculpture of saint Mary from XIV century

Culture

The city, heiress of a rich medieval, art nouveau and industrial inheritance, takes into account a wide network of libraries, Historical Archives and museums. This article is about the history and organisation of the cathedral APSE standing for Ada Programming Support Environment is a program or set of programs to support Software development in the Ada programming language. In Romanesque and Gothic Christian Abbey, Cathedral Basilica and church Architecture, the nave is the The Lombards ( Latin Langobardi, whence the alternative names Langobards and Longobards) were a Germanic people originally from Fresco (plural either frescos or frescoes) is any of several related Painting types done on Plaster on walls or St Thomas Becket (c 1118 &ndash December 29, 1170) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170 Art History Mosaics of the 4th century BC are found in the Macedonian palace-city of Aegae, and they enriched the floors of Hellenistic A cross is a geometrical figure consisting of two lines or bars perpendicular to each other dividing one or two of the lines in half

Museums

• the museum of Terrassa, municipal owned, has various sections:
  • Castle Cartoixa de Vallparadís, in the Park of Vallparadís
  • Visigothic-Romanesque churches of Sant Pere (Saint Peter)
  • Casa Alegre de Sagrera, house style art nouveau in the Font Vella street
  • Tower of Palau, the only vestige of the castle-palace of the count-kings of Catalonia in Terrassa
  • Center of medieval interpretation of the city of Terrassa
  • Convent of Sant Francesc, cloister decorated with polichromed ceramics (1671 - 1673)
• Museum of the Science and the Technique of Catalonia, installed in the old vapor Aymerich Amat i Jover, managed by the Generalitat de Catalunya

The Town hall

• the Documentation centre and Textile Museum of the Barcelona Diputation
• the Parochial Museum of Sant Esperit, in the cathedral. A cloister (from Latin claustrum) is a part of Cathedral, Monastic and Abbey architecture

Municipal Government

The Municipal Council has 27 seats and according to the result of the local elections of May 2007 is formed by:

• PSC 13 seats (28,640 votes, 43. 56%)
• CiU 6 seats (13,041 votes, 19. 83%)
• ICV 3 seats (6,736 votes, 10. 25%)
• PP 3 seats (6,468 votes, 9. 84%)
• ERC 2 seats (4,870 votes, 7. 41%)

The municipal government is formed by a coalition between PSC, ICV and ERC. The Mayor is Pere Navarro (PSC).

Communications

Motorways

Terrassa is well communicated with Barcelona and its port and airport by motorway, C-58 and C-16 also links the city with the interior (Manresa), the north (Girona and France) or the south (Tarragona). ||-||-|-||-||-||-||-||-||-|} A port is a facility for receiving Ships and transferring cargo An airport is a location where Aircraft such as airplanes, Helicopters and blimps take off and land Motorway is a term for both a type of Road and a classification or designation Manresa is the capital of the Bages comarca (county, located in the geographic centre of Catalonia, Spain, and crossed by the river Girona ( Catalan: Girona ʒiˈɾonə Spanish: Gerona xeˈɾona is a city located in the northeast of Catalonia, Spain This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Tarragona (tərəˈɣonə in Catalan) is a city located in the south of Catalonia and east of Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea.

The railway arrived to Terrassa in 1856, nowadays two lines arrive to the city. "Railroad" and "Railway" both redirect here For other uses see Railroad (disambiguation. Year 1856 ( MDCCCLVI) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year The first one, operated by RENFE, connect with Barcelona and Lleida, and the second one, operated by FGC, with Barcelona. Lleida (Standard Central Catalan ˈʎejðə or North-Western Catalan; Spanish Lérida, though officially referred as Lleida FGC is expanding its line to the north of the city building three new stations, one of them will act as a rail hub with RENFE line.

Diverse lines of interurban buses connect Terrassa with the closest cities and towns like Sabadell, Castellar del Vallès, Martorell, Rubí, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Vacarisses, etc. Sabadell is the largest city in the comarca of the Vallès Occidental in Catalonia. Castellar del Vallès is a Municipality of the comarca of Vallès Occidental. Martorell is a town near Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain, primarily known for its medieval Devil's bridge and as one of the most notorious Rubí ( Ruby) is a Mexican Telenovela that aired on Televisa in 2004 Sant Cugat del Vallès (pop 71424 as of the year 2006) is a town and Municipality west of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain

The transport inside the city is served by 14 bus lines operated by a municipal company (TMESA). In the future, when the three FGC new stations and the two planned in RENFE line will be in use, railway will become an urban transport.

Sports

Terrassa was a pioneer in the introduction of field hockey and korfball in Catalonia and played an important role in the introduction of basketball. Field hockey is a Team sport in which players attempt to score goals by hitting the Ball across the pitch with a stick Korfball (Korfbal is a team ball game similar to mixed Netball. Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m The most important sport in the city is field hockey. During the Olympic Games of Barcelona in 1992, Terrassa was the city where the field hockey competition was played. The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were an International Multi-sport event held in Barcelona, Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) The great number of hockey players from Terrassa who participated in the Olympic Games over the years have led to Terrassa being referred to as the “most Olympic city of the world. The Olympic Games is an international Multi-sport event established for both summer and winter games ” Between 1928 and 2004, Terrassa sent 124 people to the Olympic Games; the majority of them were hockey players. Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Three local field hockey clubs play in the main Spanish league championship:

• Atlètic Terrassa Hockey Club (also the female team)
• Club Egara
• Club Deportiu Terrassa (also the female team)

Atlètic Terrassa and Club Egara have won the EuroHockey Club Champions Cup.

Other local sports teams include Club Natació Terrassa (water polo), which won the 2006 LEN Trophy); Terrassa FC (football), and Sferic Terrassa (basketball). Water polo is a team water sport A team consists of six field players and one Goalkeeper. Terrassa Futbol Club is a Spanish football club team based in Terrassa ( Barcelona) in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m

Romanesque monastery at the top of la Mola (1107 m), the highest point of the natural reserve of Sant Llorenç del Munt i Serra de l'Obac

Mass media

Terrasa counts on a local newspaper, the Diari de Terrassa, that is published daily of Tuesday to Saturday, as well as several radio transmitters: Ràdio Terrassa Chain TO BE Vallès -828 A. M. and 89,4 FM-, with more than 75 years of history to its backs, being one of the pioneering transmitters in Catalunya and Spain, the municipal transmitter (noucincpuntdos, 95,2 FM, http://www.radiomunicipalterrassa.com, also can be listened to Radio Star de Terrassa, the cultural transmitter of the city, that it emits by the 100,5 FM, http://www.radiostarterrassa.com, this transmitter was based in 1984 and is one of the historical local radios of Catalonia.

Also the city counts on diverse local televisions - TV20 Locàlia Vallès (prevailed) and Canal Terrassa (policeman), http://www.canalterrassatv.com/, with a hearing of more than 50,000 viewers. In addition, also the gratuitous newspaper “Terrassa Societat” is published, of monthly diffusion and with a distance of 50,000 units controlled by the OJD and of “Terrassa Month”, that is published of Monday through Friday also collecting local. From 2005 centa with the municipal digital newspaper http://www.e-newsterrassa.com/, in Catalan. The municipal Web http://www.terrassa.cat/ despicable number of more has the nothing than 115,000 monthly visitors

See also

• Terrassa Metro
• List of municipalities in Barcelona

External links

• Terrassa City Council
• Chamber of commerce
• University
• Tourism
• MNACTEC
• "Castells" human towers
• Terrassa blogs directory
• http://www.radiostarterrassa.com cultural transmitter of Terrassa, that it emits in the 100,5 of the F. Terrassa Metro ( Catalan and Spanish: Metro de Terrassa) will be the name of the future subway in Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain This is a list of the municipalities in the province of Barcelona in the Autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. M.
• totaTerrassa.com (Commerce + Restaurants + Bars + Night Clubs)
• losPIXELESdeTERRASSA.com - Todas las Webs de tu ciudad