Cabrera de Mar

infobox catalan city
title=Cabrera de Mar
arms=Escut de Cabrera de Mar.svg


image_skyline_size=200px
location_

province=Barcelona
comarca=Maresme
population=4,269
population_year=2007
area=8.98
population_density=475.39
elevation=104
demonym=Cabrerenc, cabrerenca
mayor=Jaume Borràs i Ferré

Cabrera de Mar is a municipality of the "comarca" of Maresme in
Catalonia, Spain.

It is located next to the catalan mediterranean coast, between the municipalities of Vilassar de Mar and Mataró, although the urban centre is at about 2,5 km inland, in a small valley between the hills of Burriac (where the remains of the Sant Vicenç de Burriac castle are located) and Montcabrer. Apart from the two mentioned, Cabrera de Mar also borders with the municipalities of Cabrils and Argentona.

Population in Cabrera de Mar is quite scattered in several nucleus of different origins. The "casc antic" (main centre), Agell (also known as Santa Elena d'Agell), Sant Joan de Munt and Mas Terrillo are located inland, whereas Pla de l'Avellà, Costamar and Bonamar are located next to the coast.

The town centre has buildings in a wide range of styles: neoclassical, "modernista", "noucentista" and simply eclectic.

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.

Demography

infobox catalan city demography
pop_1900=806
pop_1930=1102
pop_1950=1262
pop_1970=1705
pop_1986=1989
pop_2001=3763
pop_latest=4269
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).

Enllaços externs

* [http://www.cabrerademar.cat/ Official website] ca
* [http://www.municat.net:8000/omunicat/owa/mun_p01.dad_ens?via=1&cod=0802910007 Information - Generalitat de Catalunya] ca
* [http://www.idescat.cat/territ/BasicTerr?TC=3&V0=1&V1=08029 Statistical information - Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya] ca
* [http://www.poblesdecatalunya.cat/municipi.php?m=080291 Patrimoni històric i artístic de Cabrera de Mar]