Terrassa
Flag Coat of Arms
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	74.65 km²
Altitude	286 m AMSL
Population
Population	201,442 (2006)
- rank in Spain:	25
Density	2,698 hab./km² (2006)

Terrassa is an Spanish city, the fourth 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. Its area of influence reaches more than one quarter of million people. Image File history File links Flag_of_Terrassa. ... Image File history File links Terrassa. ... Image File history File links Localització_de_Terrassa. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... Catalan IPA: (català IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia (in the latter with the name of Valencian), and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of... This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ... Postcodes are generally clearly visible outside Australia Post offices. ... A telephone numbering plan is a system that allows subscribers to make and receive telephone calls across long distances. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... The term Administration, as used in the context of government, differs according to jurisdiction. ... For other uses, see Country (disambiguation). ... Spains fifty provinces (provincias) are grouped into seventeen autonomous communities (comunidades aut nomas), in addition to two African autonomous cities (ciudades aut nomas) (Ceuta and Melilla). ... Anthem: Capital Barcelona Official language(s) Catalan,Spanish and Aranese. ... A province is a territorial unit, almost always a country subdivision. ... Barcelona is a province of eastern Spain, in the center of the autonomous community of Catalonia. ... This is a list of the comarques (singular comarca) of Catalonia. ... Vallès Occidental is a comarca (county) in Catalonia. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... Logo of the PSC party Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (Socialist Party of Catalonia) is a political party in Catalonia, Spain. ... Altitude is the elevation of an object from a known level or datum. ... 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 average sea level. ... In physics, density is mass m per unit volume V. For the common case of a homogeneous substance, it is expressed as: where, in SI units: ρ (rho) is the density of the substance, measured in kg·m-3 m is the mass of the substance, measured in kg V is... Vallès Occidental is a comarca (county) in Catalonia. ...

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. Image File history File linksMetadata Masia_Freixa_1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Masia_Freixa_1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Castell_de_Vallparadís. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Castell_de_Vallparadís. ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Barcelona (Catalan) Spanish name Barcelona Nickname Ciutat Comtal (City of Counts) Postal code 08001–08080 Area code 34 (Spain) + 93 (Barcelona) Website http://www. ...

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 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. 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. Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus (born November 17, 9, died June 23, 79), known originally as Titus Flavius Vespasianus and usually referred to in English as Vespasian, was emperor of Rome from 69 to 79. ... For other uses, see 69 (disambiguation). ... This article is about the year 79. ... The Lady of Baza, made by Iberians The Iberians were an ancient, Pre-Indo-European people who inhabited the east and southeast of the Iberian Peninsula in prehistoric and historic times. ...

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. At this placement there is today the monumental ensemble of the Visigothic-Romanesque churches of Sant Pere de Terrassa. 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). Events August 25 - Marcian proclaimed Eastern Roman Emperor by Aspar and Pulcheria. ... Events Pelayo established the Kingdom of Asturias in the Iberian peninsula (modern day Portugal and Spain). ... The Umayyad conquest of Hispania (711–718) commenced when an army of the Umayyad Caliphate consisting largely of Moors, the Muslim inhabitants of North and West Africa, invaded Visigothic Christian Hispania (Portugal and Spain) in the year 711 CE. Under the authority of the Umayyad caliph at Damascus, and led... Migrations The Visigoths (Western Goths) were one of two main branches of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe (the Ostrogoths being the other). ... South transept of Tournai Cathedral, Belgium, 12th century. ... Events English king Edward III introduces three new gold coins, the florin. ... // March 21 - Henry V becomes King of England. ... Coat of arms of the Carthusian order Monasterio de la Cartuja, a former Carthusian monastery in Seville The Carthusian Order, also called the Order of St. ...

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. 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. Terrassa is a partner city of the Art nouveau network [1] a European network of co-operation created in 1999 for the study, safeguards and development of the Art nouveau. Vitebsk Railway Station one of the finest examples of Art Nouveau architecture. ... Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... This article is about the year. ...

Demographics

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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. The episcopal ensemble follows the Byzantine model of antiquity, with two churches (Sant Pere and Santa Maria) and a baptistery (Sant Miquel). 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. 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. Pope Pius XI blesses Bishop Stephen Alencastre as fifth Apostolic Vicar of the Hawaiian Islands in a Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace window. ... Events August 25 - Marcian proclaimed Eastern Roman Emperor by Aspar and Pulcheria. ... In Christian architecture the baptistery or baptistry (Latin baptisterium) is the separate centrally-planned structure surrounding the baptismal font. ... Interior of Cologne Cathedral Gothic architecture is a style of architecture, particularly associated with cathedrals and other churches, which flourished in Europe during the high and late medieval period. ... Cathedral ground plan. ... Interior of Cologne Cathedral Gothic architecture is a style of architecture, particularly associated with cathedrals and other churches, which flourished in Europe during the high and late medieval period. ... The Annunciation Triptych is an altarpiece, ca. ...

• 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

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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.

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.

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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). Image File history File links Autopistes_Terrassa. ... Image File history File links Autopistes_Terrassa. ... Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 The Port of Wellington at night. ... Motorway symbol in UK, France and Ireland. ... C-16 is the US military designation for the armed version of Cessna 208 Caravan, while the unarmed version is U-27. ... Manresa is the capital of the Bages comarca (county), located in the geographic centre of Catalonia and crossed by the river Cardener. ... This article is about the Spanish city. ... Tarragona (IPA: in Catalan) is a city located in the south of Catalonia, northeastern Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea. ...

The railway arrived to Terrassa in 1856, nowadays two lines arrive to the city. The first one, operated by RENFE, connect with Barcelona and Lleida, and the second one, operated by FGC, with Barcelona. 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. 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Lleida (Catalan) Spanish name Lérida Founded 6th century BC Postal code 25XXX Website http://www. ...

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 one of the largest cities in the comarca (similar to the UK counties) of Vallès Occidental in Catalonia. ... Castellar del Vallès is a municipality of the shire of Vallès Occidental. ... Martorell is a town near Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain, primarily known for an ancient Roman bridge and as one of the most notorious knot of toll autoroutes in Catalonia. ... Rubí 2004 DVD cover Rubí (Ruby) is a Mexican telenovela that aired on Televisa in 2004. ... Sant Cugat monastery Sant Cugat del Vallès (pop. ...

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 a urban transport.

Sports

Terrassa was a pioneer in the introduction of the field hockey and the korfball in Catalonia, and played an important role in the case of the basketball. The most important sport in the city is the field hockey. During the Olympic Games of Barcelona in 1992, Terrassa was the city where the field hockey competition was played. The great number of hockey players from Terrassa which took part in the various editions of the Olympic Games cause that the city would be known like the “most Olympic city of the world”, between 1928 and the 2004 the city sent 124 people to the Olympic Games and the majority of them were hockey players. Currently there are the following clubs playing the main Spanish league championship: A game of field hockey in progress Field hockey is a popular sport for men and women in many countries around the world. ... A korfball match in the Netherlands between Trekvogels and OZC Korfball (Dutch: Korfbal) is a team ball game, similar in many ways to mixed netball. ... This article is about the sport. ... The 92 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were held in 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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

Atlètic Terrassa and the Club Egara are winners of the EuroHockey Club Champions Cup.

Other sports where there is excelled participation are the water polo, with the Club Natació Terrassa (plays the LEN Trophy 2006); the football, with Terrassa Futbol Club or basketball, with Sferic Terrassa. Water polo is a team water sport combining some elements of swimming and handball. ... Look up Football in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the sport. ...

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

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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

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External links

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