Premià de Mar

infobox catalan city
title=Premià de Mar


image_skyline_size=200px
location_

province=Barcelona
comarca=Maresme
population=27,590
population_year=2007
area=1.97
population_density=14,005.08
elevation=8
demonym=Premianenc, premianenca
mayor=Miquel Buch i Moya

Premià de Mar is a municipality in the "comarca" of the Maresme in
Catalonia, Spain. It is situated on the coast between El Masnou and Vilassar de Mar, to the north-east of
Barcelona. The town is both a tourist centre and a dormitory town for Barcelona.

Like almost all municipalities of Maresme, Cabrera de Mar has been historically very well connected with the rest of the "comarca" and with Barcelona thanks to old "Camí Ral" (Royal Way) (actual N-II main road) and railroad (Barcelona-Mataró railroad route (1848) was the first to be constructed in all the Iberian Peninsula). Communications have been enhanced in recent years with the construction (1969) of the C-32's Barcelona-Mataró section, also the first "autopista" (highway) to be constructed in all the Iberian Peninsula.

The town centre has buildings in a wide range of styles: neoclassical, "modernista", "noucentrista" and simply eclectic. The church of Sant Cristòfol has a baroque doorway with maritime motifs.

Demography

infobox catalan city demography
pop_1900=2239
pop_1930=3380
pop_1950=3947
pop_1970=11,284
pop_1986=20,069
pop_latest=27,590
latest_year=2007

References

* Panareda Clopés, Josep Maria; Rios Calvet, Jaume; Rabella Vives, Josep Maria (1989). "Guia de Catalunya", Barcelona:Caixa de Catalunya. ISBN 84-87135-01-3 (Spanish). ISBN 84-87135-02-1 (Catalan).

External links

* [http://www.premiademar.cat/ Official website] ca
* [http://www.municat.net:8000/omunicat/owa/mun_p01.dad_ens?via=0&cod=0817270005 Information - Generalitat de Catalunya] ca
* [http://www.idescat.cat/territ/BasicTerr?TC=3&V0=1&V1=08172 Statistical information - Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya] ca
* [http://www.poblesdecatalunya.cat/municipi.php?m=081727 Historic-artistic heritage]