Cervelló

Cervelló municipality
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Catalonia
Province :	Barcelona
Comarca :	Baix Llobregat
Coordinates	41 ° 24 ′ N , 1 ° 57 ′ E Coordinates: 41 ° 24 ′ N , 1 ° 57 ′ E
Height :	122 msnm
Area :	24.15 km²
Residents :	9,054 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	374.91 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number ( INE ):	08068
administration
Official language :	Castilian , Catalan
Mayor :	José Ignacio Aparicio

Cervelló is a Catalan city in the province of Barcelona in northeastern Spain . It is located in the Comarca Baix Llobregat and belongs to the metropolitan area Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona .

Over 2300 hectares of the district are covered by forest. The main agricultural products are wine, grain and fruit. In the last third of the 19th century a rapid industrialization process began, which led to a significant increase in population. The main industries at that time were glass, cotton and paper processing.

Today the construction, the metal industry and the silk and paper processing form the economic basis of the city. The traditional glass industry still exists on a small scale. In the food sector, the production of cava is of some importance, even if the most famous brand, Rondel , has been produced and bottled at the Codorníu headquarters in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia since 2005 .

The place arose around the castle Cervelló , 1 km south of today's place and already mentioned in 992, on the driveway to the Ordal pass .

sons and daughters of the town

Josep Tarradellas , politician and President of the Generalitat de Catalunya , born January 19, 1899 in Cervelló; † June 10, 1988 in Barcelona

Town twinning

France Saint-Martin-le-Beau (France)

Individual evidence

↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).

Web links

Commons : Cervelló - collection of images, videos and audio files

Information from the Generalitat de Catalunya on Cervelló

[1] Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).