 thumb|300px|right|location of vallÃ¨s within the autonomous community of catalonia. el vallÃ¨s (or simply vallÃ¨s) is a historical county in catalonia, spain, located in the center of the catalan pre-coastal range. it is nowadays represented by two separate administrative divisions which are part of the barcelona province, named comarques. one of them is the western vallÃ¨s, which has two capitals, sabadell and terrassa, whereas the second comarca is the eastern vallÃ¨s, with granollers as its capital. the present division of vallÃ¨s has its historical roots in the legal districts of granollers and terrassa, established in 1834. however, the first time this subdivision was explicitly used as sanctioned by law was in 1936, with the official division of catalonia in comarques. some parts of this region belong to the metropolitan area of barcelona and the Ãmbit metropolitÃ  de barcelona, and is nowadays connected with barcelona with public transportations systems such as fgc's so-called metro del vallÃ¨s. ==see also== *vallÃ¨s occidental *vallÃ¨s oriental *Ãmbit metropolitÃ  de barcelona ==external links== *consell comarcal del vallÃ¨s occidental *consell commarcal del vallÃ¨s oriental  
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