surroundings

  • Vista parcial de la Masia Freixa des de la façana sud
  • Esglesies de Sant Pere, des del pont vell
  • Camp verd en primer pla i al fons la muntanya de Montserrat
  • Les voltes del Vapor Amat des la la Plaça Didó
  • Camp llaurat a la tardor al Parc Natural de Sant Llorenç del Munt
  • Vista parcial de la façana del museu d´art Contemporani de Barcelona
  • Un dels nous edificis de la zona del Fòrum de Barcelona
  • Façana de la casa Milà de Barcelona

Terrassa,  Barcelona,  Catalonia, Spain

Terrassa is the third biggest city in Catalonia with 200.000 inhabitants and just at 25km north from Barcelona.

Although it was already a Roman settlement called Egara, it is actually known for being a traditionally industrial city, starting with a powerful textile industry at the end of 20th century, it is also locally known for its natural surroundings called Natural Park of Sant Llorenç, and also for offering high level universities in the departments of Engineering, Optics, Nursery, Photography, Cinema and Multimedia. Culturally, Terrassa offers a prestigious international jazz festival every spring. It is said that Terrasians love jazz because it reminds them of the rhythm of the thousands of looms working non-stop in the textile plants that gave birth to the thriving city.

Terrassa grew up specially in the 50ties with the arrival of thousands of immigrants from different points of Spain, as essential labour force in the factories. These new inhabitants lived either in the gated communities built by the plant owners , or settled in self-built houses nearby the factories configuring new quarters. Some of these quarters were built according to the architectonic features of their origin region (specially the south of Spain) and still today you can feel like being in a typical Andalusian village when walking around their white low-houses streets.

Because of the general crisis in the textile sector in the 80ties, many plants where closed down and the huge empty spaces where converted into modern apartment buildings, squares or museums which received the name of the old misfortune tenants. These factories where commonly called “vapor” (steam) which was the energy originally used, so today we have places called: “Vapor Gran”, “Vapor Universitari”, “Vapor Marcet”, “Vapor Armengol”, spread all over the city.

Interesting websites:

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