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Geographical location of Castelldefels

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Description of the city

Castelldefels is a city to the south Barcelona, located between twospaces of great natural interest: the Mediterranean Sea and the Garraf Natural Park.

With a population of just over 60,000, Castelldefels is the tourismcapital par excellence of the district of Baix Llobregat. This situation isbased on its long-term commitment to tourism, and a naturaladvantage that supports this commitment: its almost six kilometres ofwell-equipped beach, which means that for many years, the city’s lifehas evolved around the sea.

Its privileged location gives our visitors easy access to the manyattractions offered by Barcelona and other neighbouring towns.

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Food and restaurant facilities

Castelldefels has a large number of restaurant facilities that offer tourists and visitors a great choice of eating styles.

At present, Castelldefels has a total of 449 restaurants offering many different types of food (Asian, Mediterranean, African etc.) that can be divided into the following categories:

-Restaurants-Bars-Cafes-Ice-cream Parlours

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Castelldefels offers to its visitors, many activities to complete the supplyof sun and beach:

Populars celebrations

Festes del Mar: In S.XVI one of the main reasons for insecurity for thepopulation in the Mediterranean coast, were the pirate attacks. Thepirates normally attacked the populations of the coast. In order to facethese dangers in year 1550 they built the castle of Castelldefels thathas turned, nowadays, the most emblematic symbol of the city.

This entailment that Castelldefels always

has had with the sea, its projected in the

Castelldefels popular celebrations. We have

the example in the: “ Festes del Mar” that are

celebrated in Castelldefels some days before

the festivity of Our Lady of the Carmen.

Tourism

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Festa Major d’EstiuThe greater celebration of summer, is celebrated in Castelldefelsfrom the 11 to the 15 of august, the activities that we can found arethe following: concerts, theatre plays, popular dances, fireworks...

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The Castle’s Romanesque church

Historic – artistic building of interest in which remains can beseen of various different periods including an IberianSettlement of the 4th century BC, a Roman villa, a primitiveRomanesque church of the 10th century and its extensions ofthe 14th, 16th and 18th centuries, the neoclassical decorationsby Francisco Rodriguez, from 1812, and the restorations fromthe beginning of last century and those that were finished in1996 as well as graffiti by the ‘brigadistas’ imprisoned hereduring the Civil War.

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Prehistoric mines of Gavà

Extensive area of mines with more than 70 entrances. Of the network ofunderground tunnels, the longest as yet explored is some 45 meters longand a part of it is open to the public. Within the complex, there is areception area with services as well as a marquee in which workshops andstudies of prehistory are carried out. The prehistoric mines of Gavà, whichdate back some 6,000 years (Neolithic, early and middle), are the firsttestimony to tunneled mining in Europe.

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The Roman baths at Sant Boi

Are the best conserved in all of Catalonia. They were built at the endof the 2nd century AD at a time when the zone was in its splendour.The thermal building was fully functional until the 5th century of thenew era.). The baths of Sant Boi are formed by two bodies of parallelbuildings. One contains the cold chambers: apodyterium or dressingroom and the frigidarium and cella piscinalis (the cold chamber andpool). The other held the hot chambers: tepydarium or tepid chamber,the sudatorium or steam room and the caldarium or hot bathchamber. Along with the discovery of the baths, an amphoraproduction facility was also discovered under the frigidarium, whichdates back to 30-20 AD.

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The Güell Colony

The Colonia Güell, a textile estate, was first set up in 1890 on theinitiative of Eusebi Güell, a businessman, in the municipality of SantaColoma de Cervelló.

In 1898, Eusebi Güell, commissioned the architect Antoni Gaudí to designa church for the textile estate: Colonia Güell. Finally, in 1908, building work began. However, the ambitious project, it remained unfinished.Despite remaining unfinished, the church represents a high point inGaudi's work. For the first time, almost all of his architectural innovationsare combined in this building. The church on the Colonia Güell wasdeclared a World Heritage site by UNESCO on 15 July 2005.

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Ride Horses

Castelldefels is surrounded by equestrian that offers the possibilityto ride horses and make beautiful strolls

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The limestone has created an exotic landscape with its own vegetation, the best known specie, the Mediterranean fan palm. The vineyard shacks and dry-stone walls blend into the white stone and surround the old farmhouses and some of the small villages that are found within the Park.

Cal Ganxo, is a municipal environmental centre, situated in the GarrafNatural Park, where we developed environmental activities, like thefollowings: environmental sensitize activities, recycling activities,Astronomy activities, arqueologycal activities...

Garraf Natural Park– Cal Ganxo

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The Castelldefels City hall, with Cal Ganxo, and the the regional government of Barcelona have created three itineraries to know

the Garraf Natural Park.

This itineraries have different levels of difficulty and also different thematic.

Garraf Natural Park

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When the Llobregat river, arrives to the Mediterranean Sea, it forms adelta of 97 km2. Even though the proximity to Barcelona, this delta stillconserves one of the three Catalan most important humid zones,considered very important by the European Union.

Delta of the Llobregat river Natural Reserve

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