Calella

Known as the tourist capital of the Costa del Maresme, Calella has always been a city open to the sea and cultures, cosmopolitan and cheerful, in continuous growth, a city with more than 650 years of history, enterprising, modern and welcoming.

Throughout the year Calella is a cultural hotspot. The wealth of its associative network has undoubtedly become a treasure that has enhanced the culture, the history, the roots of a town that has made Calella a unique city! Its origins as a city can be traced back to the sea, which is so present in the ways of life of its inhabitants. A town that combines different rhythms and intensities, that adapts at all times to the concerns of those who live there and visit it. With a wide cultural offer, Calella is today one of the few tourist destinations in which the daily rhythm is combined in perfect harmony between those looking for rest and those who want to enjoy it intensely.

A lively city, which offers corners and places that invite you to enjoy it throughout the year. From Roca Grossa, a space with a very special magic, a privileged and exclusive environment surrounded by rocks and transparent waters where you can enjoy peace and relaxation with the crashing of the waves close by, to the Calella Lighthouse, symbol par excellence of our city until you reach the Torretes, vestiges that remind us of the most recent historical past of Calella with the Carline Wars! Three icons that shape the skyline of our city. But this offer cannot forget the walks under the shadows of the pines in the Dalmau Park or the centenary banana trees in the Passeig de Manuel Puigvert (both the work of the architect Jeroni Martorell) where the soundtrack is recorded daily between the chats of grandparents and smiles of the little ones at home.

But if what you want to capture is the heartbeat of this city, the streets, its old town, where some houses recall the city's Renaissance past, and its squares are without a doubt an ideal place. Afternoon coffees in Plaça de l'Església or Sunday vermouths in Plaça de l'Ajuntament help to highlight the intensity with which the days pass in this town. Right here, in the old Plaça de la Constitució (currently Plaça de l'Ajuntament), Calella's first market took place, and it is no coincidence that you find the Can Salvador de la Plaça Library there. A facility that is increasingly becoming a cultural lung for our city.

The history that has forged the character and way of being of Calella’s inhabitants can be grasped by visiting two facilities that keep the past very: the Refugi Antiaeri at Parc Dalmau and the Museu Arxiu Josep Maria Codina i Bagué. In the first, visitors can enjoy a cultural asset of local interest, attached to the Archive Museum, through which one of the most important chapters in the history of Calella can be discovered: the Civil War. In the second (Museum-Archive), created at the initiative of the citizens, the visitor can enjoy one of the spaces where the city's past is perceived through the collections that year after year have been filling this museum with heritage objects of the city.

Welcome to Calella, a unique city!