Mataró

Mataró municipality
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Catalonia
Province :	Barcelona
Comarca :	Maresme
Coordinates	41 ° 32 '  N , 2 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 32 '  N , 2 ° 26'  E
Height :	28  msnm
Area :	22.53 km²
Residents :	128,265 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	5,693.08 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number  ( INE ):	08121
administration
Official language :	Castilian , Catalan
Mayor :	Joan Mora i Bosch
Website :	www.mataro.org
Location of the municipality

Mataró beach

Street in Mataró

Mataró ( cat . [ Mətəˈɾo ]) is a city in Spain .

Data

Mataró is the capital of the Catalan comarca of Maresme in the province of Barcelona . The city is located about 30 km northeast of Barcelona on the Mediterranean coast , on the so-called Costa del Maresme and is still considered a suburb of Barcelona.

Mataró has 128,265 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) on an area of ​​22.5 km², that is 5693 inhabitants / km².

Mataró is well connected to the Catalan transport network via the N II ( Girona –Barcelona), direct motorway connections to Barcelona and Granollers and the railway line to Barcelona.

history

The history of Mataró goes back to the time of the Romans . The Roman name of the place was Iluro . From this time there is still a Roman villa, the Torre Llauder from the 1st century BC. Chr.

The first railway line in Spain , commissioned on October 28, 1848, ran from Barcelona to Mataró.

The world-famous modernist architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch (1867–1956) comes from Mataró.

Partner communities

The partner municipalities of Matarós are

• Dürnau in the district of Göppingen , Baden-Württemberg , in Germany (since 1988)
• Créteil in the Val-de-Marne department near Paris , France (since 1989)
• Corsico in the metropolitan city of Milan in Lombardy , Italy (since 1993)
• Cehegín in Murcia , Spain (since 1993)

Sons and daughters

• Miguel Biada (1789–1848), entrepreneur, initiator of the Barcelona – Mataró railway line
• Juan Larrea (1782–1847), Argentine politician
• Rafael Palau i March (1810–1890), organist, choir director and composer
• Néstor Luján (1922–1995), journalist and writer
• Peret (1935–2014), singer and guitarist
• Nacho Vidal (* 1973), actor and film director
• Sergio Sánchez (* 1986), football player
• Dídac Vilà (* 1989), football player
• Carles Aleña (born 1998), football player

Web links

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

• Website of the Ajuntament de Mataró (català, castellano, english)
• Official website for tourism in Spain: information about Mataró (english)

Individual evidence

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).
2. ↑ New Mayor (2011)