Santa Coloma de Gramenet

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Santa Coloma de Gramenet

Province	Barcelona
Comarca	Barcelonès
Population (2001)	116,012
Area	7.05 km²
Population density (2001)	16,456 /km²
Elevation	56 m
Demonym	n/a
[[Barcelonès]]

Santa Coloma de Gramenet is a municipality in the comarca of the Barcelonès in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated on the south-east side of the Litoral range, with the Puig Castellar (299 m) as its highest point, on the left bank of the Besós river: the municipalities of Sant Adrià de Besós and Badalona separate it from the coast. It is essentially a suburb of Barcelona.

The area has been inhabited since at least the Iberic period, and the remains of an Iberic village have been found on Puig Castellar. The artefacts are housed in a museum in La Torre Balldovina, a building dating from the eighteenth century. nOther notable buildings include the renaissance palace of La Torre Pallaresa and the novecentista Clínica Mental.

[edit] Demography

West Santa Coloma

Main church

1900	1930	1950	1970	1986	2001
1510	12,930	15,281	106,711	135,258	116,012

[edit] Reference

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).