# Terrassa

Terrassa is in Barcelona (province). And is known for its industrial past and present, its lively cultural scene, its industrial modernist architecture

## Understand

The city is located in the Catalan Prelitoral depression (Depressió Prelitoral), at the feet of the Prelitoral mountain range (natural reserve of Sant Llorenç del Munt). It is 20 km from Barcelona and 18 km from Montserrat respectively
* 41.5632.004221 Tourist office (Oficina de Turisme / Masia Freixa), Masia Freixa. Plaça Freixa i Argemí, 11, ☏ +34 937397019, turisme@terrassa.cat. (updated Feb 2025)

## Get in
### By plane

Barcelona El Prat Airport BCN is about 1 hour away by car (40 km). Depending on the route you will go across Barcelona, and the traffic can be intense.
Girona/Gerona/Costa Brava airport GRO is about 1 hour away by car (92 km).
There is a local airport in Sabadell, but only for private airplanes: Sabadell Airport QSA

### By train

* From Barcelona:
** Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya , line S1 Terrassa
** Rodalies de Barcelona, line R4 suburban
* From Lleida:
** RENFE Regionals , line R12

### By car

* From Barcelona:
** C-58 Barcelona-Terrassa motorway (free)
** C-16 motorway (European route E-9 ) Barcelona- Vallvidrera tunnels (toll)-Sant Cugat-Terrassa, Manresa, Berga, Cadi tunnels.
* From Lleida:
** A-2 , connection with the AP-7 and C-58 motorways (Barcelona-Terrassa)
** A-2 , connection with C-243c (Martorell-Terrassa)
* From France-La Jonquera-Girona:
** AP-7 , connection with the C-58 (Barcelona-Terrassa)
* From Tarragona:
** AP-7 , connection with the C-58 (Barcelona-Terrassa)

### By bus

Moventis. (updated Feb 2025)
* E2.1-BARCELONA - TERRASSA
Bus lines to Terrassa. (updated Feb 2025)
* M1 - Olesa - Terrassa - Bellaterra
* M5 - Terrassa-Vacarisses
* M6 - Viladecavalls-Terrassa
* M6A - Llançadora Viladecavalls - Terrassa
* M7 - Terrassa-Ullastrell
* M8A - Terrassa-Matadepera
* M8D - Matadepera-Terrassa FGC/RENFE
* M9 - Esparreguera - Abrera - Terrassa
* M11 - Terrassa-Coll d'Estenalles-Mura/Talamanca
* M12 - Terrassa-Rellinars-Castellbell i el Vilar
* L59A - St. Vicenç dels Horts - Terrassa

## See

* 41.56462.018921 Cartoixa de Vallparadís castle (Castell Cartoixa de Vallparadís), Parc de Vallparadís. (updated Feb 2025)
* 41.5669442.0186112 The churches of Sant Pere (Saint Peter) (Conjunt Monumental de les Esglésies de Sant Pere) (a l'antic poble de Sant Pere). These three churches were built close to the site of old Ègara to be the seat of the Ègara Diocese, which was founded around 450 CE and remained in existence until the 8th century. This episcopal complex follows the Byzantine model of antiquity, with two churches (Sant Pere and Santa Maria) and a mausoleum (Sant Miquel). After a long period of construction, the churches were finished in the then-current manner about the 11th and 12th centuries and in Romanesque style, on the site of the pre-Romanesque buildings of the Visigothic period. The church of Santa Maria contains outstanding works of art, and there are murals dating from the Romanesque period to the Gothic. There is also an altar stone dating from the 10th century and medieval and Romanesque tombstones (one of which documents the name of the Roman town of Egara). In the transept there are three Gothic altarpieces. Santa Maria (Saint Mary) the old Cathedral Sant Pere (Saint Peter) Sant Miquel (Saint Michael) (updated Feb 2025)
* 41.56282.012333 Casa Alegre de Sagrera, carrer de la Font Vella. A Modernist house (updated Feb 2025)
* 41.56252.010834 Tower of the Palau (Torre del Palau), plaça Vella. The only vestige of the castle-palace of the count-kings of Catalonia in Terrassa. (updated Feb 2025)
* Center of medieval interpretation of the city of Terrassa (Centre d'interpretació de la vila medieval de Terrassa). (updated Feb 2025)
* 41.5628392.0169255 Convent of Sant Francesc (Convent de Sant Francesc). A cloister decorated with polychromed ceramics (1671–1673). (updated Feb 2025)
* 41.5654142.0080526 National Museum of Science and Industry of Catalonia (mNACTEC-Museu Nacional de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya). mNACTEC runs several museums across Catalonia, this one specialises on textiles. The aim of the museum is to provide a comprehensive overview of the history of knowledge and technology in Catalonia, and the process of industrialisation. It starts with the Neolithic revolution, shows power generation techniques with waterwheels, electricity and turbine drives and solar technology. (updated Feb 2025)
* 41.56532.019447 Textile Museum (Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil), C. Salmerón, 25. The museum's extensive collection, with over 20,000 representative pieces of textile history from around the world, is presented in different temporary monographic exhibitions, lasting between ten and twelve months in the Modernisme area on the first floor, and two to three years on the second floor. (updated Feb 2025)