Salt (Girona)

Salt municipality
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Catalonia
Province :	Girona
Comarca :	Gironès
Coordinates	41 ° 59 ′  N , 2 ° 48 ′  E Coordinates: 41 ° 59 ′  N , 2 ° 48 ′  E
Height :	83  msnm
Area :	6.59 km²
Residents :	31,362 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	4,759.03 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number  ( INE ):	17155
administration
Official language :	Castilian , Catalan
Mayor :	Jordi Viñas Xifra
Website :	www.viladesalt.org

Salt is a city in the province of Girona in the autonomous region of Catalonia in northeastern Spain with 31,362 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019). It is one of the most densely populated municipalities in the Comarca of Gironès .

geography

Geographical location

Salt is located on the Ter River , which flows through the city from west to east, in the immediate vicinity of the city of Girona . It is the second largest municipality in the urban area of ​​Girona.

history

The first inhabitants of the region were probably Iberians . The region, over which the Visigoths ruled, was conquered by the Moors in the 7th century . In the year 785, the city was Girona of Charlemagne - in the immediate vicinity of Salt - conquered and one of the fourteen original counties of Catalonia made (see also County Girona ). The region around Girona was sacked and depopulated in 793 by Hisham I , the emir of Córdoba .

Salt is mentioned for the first time in 823 in one of the oldest surviving documents in the region. There are two hypotheses as to the origin of the name Salt: The first hypothesis is derived from the Spanish word "Salto" for waterfall. In Italian, the word Salto also means "waterfall height of a mill", so Salt would be a place where a water mill was operated. According to the second hypothesis, the name Salt (Saltu) stands for a place where salt was traded (1166, 1182, 1245, 1305, 1362 ...).

During the Middle Ages , the community was exclusively rural. The population lived in Masias , the typical farmhouses for the region of Catalonia, along the Acequia del Monars . The region remained dominated by agriculture until the 18th century, with the population of Salt remaining very small.

In the 19th century, several textile factories settled along the Acequia del Monars irrigation canal . In 1910 Joan de Coma i Cros became the sole owner of all three textile factories in Salt, which initiated a fundamental reform of the industrial infrastructure between 1910 and 1923: the expansion of the textile factory Coma i Cros , today the seat of the ERAM College for New Media and the construction of the Montfullà power station.

During the Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War , the community experienced a remarkable cultural boom, with the publications El Poble de Salt (1930) and L'amic del poble (1931). In addition, anarchism was consolidated in Salt. Before the city was taken, many of the Republicans fled to France . After the city was captured by Franco's troops on February 4, 1939 , anarcho-syndicalism in Salt was brutally ended by repressive measures.

As a result of the construction of residential quarters for workers from Andalusia and Extremadura , without parks or green spaces, the quality of life in Salt decreased significantly from 1974 onwards . In 1975, during the fascist rule of Franco, Salt was incorporated into the city of Girona together with Sarrià de Ter . In 1983, after an intense struggle for the corporation under public law , Salt became independent again and again separated from the municipality of Girona.

Population development in the city of Salt

The population of Salt grew from 2,000 to over 20,000 in the twentieth century and is now the most densely populated region in the Girona community (4249 people per km², according to data from 2004). The main cause was the flourishing textile industry. With the influx of workers from Andalusia and Extremadura, the population rose from 7,077 to 11,467 between 1960 and 1970. By the beginning of the century, the population rose further to 22,017 due to a further influx of workers from Morocco (4852 inhabitants), Gambia (1780) and Latin America. Due to the not insignificant migration of the local population and the influx of foreign workers, the number of residents with foreign citizenship has increased from 10% (2000) to 43% (2010), especially in the last ten years - according to the daily El País .

	1497	1553	1717	1787	1857	1877	1887	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1981	1990	2000	2010
population	20th	23	122	255	1,316	1,619	2,105	2,280	3.125	4.185	5,360	5,321	5,956	7,077	11,467	-	21,738	22,017	30,304

Incorporation of the City of Salt into the public corporation of the City of Girona from 1975 to March 3, 1983.

politics

City council election

City council election	2007
Political party	candidate	be right	Seats
Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya - Progrés Municipal	Iolanda Pineda	2,974	9
Convergència i Unió	Jaume Torramadé	2,798	8th
Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya - Acord Municipal	Joan Boada	661	2
Partit Popular de Catalanya	Antonio González	519	1
Independents per Salt- Candidatura d'Unitat Popular	Ramon Muñoz	489	1
Esquerra Unitària	-	219	0
Esquerra Unida-Izquierda Unida	-	122	0
Democracia Nacional	-	15th	0

Mayoral election

Mayoral election
mayor	Legislature	Political party
Narcís Devesa i Coll	1979-1983	Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya
Salvador Sunyer i Aymerich	1983-1987	Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya
Salvador Sunyer i Aymerich	1987-1991	Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya
Xavier Corominas i Mainegre	1991-1995	Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya
Xavier Corominas i Mainegre	1995-1999	Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya
Jaume Torremadé i Ribas	1999-2003	Convergència i Unió
Jaume Torremadé i Ribas	2003-2007	Convergència i Unió
Iolanda Pineda i Balló	2007-2011	Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya
Jaume Torramadé i Ribas	2011-2015	Convergència i Unió
Jordi Viñas Xifra	2015-	Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya-Acord Municipal

Neighboring communities

In addition to Girona, the neighboring municipalities of Salt are the municipalities of Sant Gregori , Bescanó and Vilablareix .

Attractions

The city of Salt paid tribute to Willy Brandt , the former President of the Socialist International, for his services by naming the street “Carrer de Willy Brandt”.

Downtown

The many monuments are worth seeing.

education

Since 2010, by a decision of the city council, the Haus des Handwerks has been training young people in various craft professions. The first course started with 30 young people between the ages of 16 and 24 without an ESO degree . The aim is to qualify young people for skilled trades and to integrate them into the regular job market.

Economy and Infrastructure

Salt is the headquarters of the manufacturer GasGas Motos Sa, which specializes in off-road motorcycles. GasGas Motos Sa's product range with around 350 employees includes off-road motorcycles for the disciplines of trial , motocross , enduro , supermoto and quads . In 2005, the market share in Europe for trial motorcycles was 40.8% and for two-stroke enduro motorcycles 28.8%.

traffic

Cycling is also being promoted in Salt through the creation of an extensive network of cycle paths. In addition, a privileged part of the car-free cycle path Via Verde del Carrilet runs through the alluvial forest of Salt . The railway cycle path follows the old narrow-gauge railway from Girona to Olot, which was closed in 1969, over a distance of 55 km .

Salt is well connected via the AP7 motorway via Girona International Airport , which is just 8 km south of Salt .

Town twinning

• Lingen (Ems) , Lower Saxony, Germany
• Quilalí , Nicaragua

sons and daughters of the town

• Carles de Camps i Olzinellas (1860–1939), engineer and Catalan regional politician
• Jaume Roca i Delpech (1910–1968), painter and musician
• Adrià Puntí (* 1963), musician, former lead singer of the group Umpah-Pah
• Agustí Cabruja i Auguet (1911–1983), Catalan writer
• José Antonio Escuredo (* 1970), former Spanish track cyclist
• Delfí Geli (born 1969), footballer
• Francesc Vilardell i Gratacós (1828–1889), textile industrialist

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. ↑ http://travel.webshots.com/album/275417148UoPOAf
3. ↑ ERAM Facilities. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 11, 2013 ; accessed on December 13, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendung/kulturheute/851097/
5. ↑ http://www.elpais.com/articulo/reportajes/Salt/olla/presion/elpepusocdmg/20100307elpdmgrep_1/Tes
6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

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

• Ajuntament de Salt (Catalan)