Garriga, la

Guide to the Municipalities

La Garriga is one of those towns that help you understand their surrounding landscape and the uses their inhabitants have put it to. Its potential as a spa town stretches far back, to the Middle Ages, although it reached its zenith at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, alongside the Catalan Art Nouveau. It was then that the spa complexes and the first summer holiday homes were built. The Roman town, the mediaeval castle and the bomb shelter, together with the Catalan Art Nouveau Eixample district, complete its offerings, together with routes through its surroundings.



The essentials

- Go to Illa Raspall.

- Walk down the Avenue and admire the buildings.

- Follow the itinerary that leads to the fountain of the Tremolencs.

- Enjoy a session in one of the spas.



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  • Region: Vallès Oriental
  • Province: Barcelona
  • Size: 19
  • Inhabitants: 15472

Economic activity

The industrial activity in La Garriga is widely diversified. The existing companies are related to textiles (cotton and a synthetic fibre factory), furniture and sawmills, brickyards, alcoholic beverages, food products (sausages), etc. Its economic activities are rounded off with the spa and summer holiday activities that have been carried out since the mid-19th century. The Balneari Blancafort (Blancafort Spa) receives thermal mineral-medicinal waters that are rich in chloride, silicate and sodium and used commercially.

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