TERRASSA

Adam Sort

2º Batxillerat

About the city

Terrassa is a city of approximately 210.000 inhabitants that is to twenty kilometres of Barcelona. A surface of the city has 70' 2 km ² and this is in the south of Sant Llorenç del Munt's clump.

History

The Roman Empire

The first news of the current Terrasa comes of the epoch of the Romans, who founded Égara's city on a former Iberian settlement of which they have found some remains, as coins. Also they have found paleolithic remains concerning Vallparadís's torrent, near where nowadays there is the monumental Set of San Pere's churches of Terrasa.

More History

- Industrial Revolution During the 19th century Terrasa it was one of the Spanish cities where the industrial revolution had a major incident, with a great number of factories and industries dedicated to the textile. Nowadays still perviven many modernist buildings of that epoch, as the Vapor Aymerich, Amat i Jover, current Museum of the Science and of the Technology of Catalonia(1907), the Masia Freixa (1907), the Casa Alegre de Sagrera (1911), the building of the Town hall (1902), the Gran Casino (1920), the Teatre Principal (1920).

Important sites

Castell-Cartoixa Vallparadís The first mention of a fortification near Vallparadís's torrent is in a document of 1110, when Berenguer de Sanlà and his wife Ermessendis, bought the count of Barcelona Ramon Berenguer III, a few lands to construct his lordly residence. Vallparadís's castle belongs so to this family that adopted Tarrasa's surname until 1344.The former castle turned into farmhouse, was acquired in 1852 by the family Maurí that yielded it in 1947 to the Town hall of the city. The council realized an intense campaign of restoration and reconstruction of the building that was chargeable to the architect Alexandre Ferrante y Miquel Vilarrubí i Casanovas as chief of work. In 1959 one installed Terrasa's Museum.

Museu de la Ciència At the end of the 19th century, three manufacturers egarenses associated creating the company Aymerich, Amat i Jover, to devote itself to the manufacture of fabrics of wool. In 1905 they decided to construct his own steam. The works directed by the architect Lluís Muncunill, began in 1907 and it was inaugurated the November, 1908. At present the mNACTEC is there, but the building continues being a recollection of this golden epoch that was the Modernism.