The heritage of the Vallés Oriental capital is open to visitors allowing them to discover the city’s past first hand through various facilities that also explain how society evolved in Granollers. This said, the first mandatory stop is the
Granollers Museum. Although its origin dates back to 1932, the building that currently houses the museum is from 1976, when, following various different stages, it reopened to the public to exhibit its extensive collection, made up of archaeology, art, ethnography and numismatics.
To find out about the city’s medieval past, the archaeological site of
Adobería de los Ginebreda is a good starting point. This truly unique space allows you to do so by exploring a significant section of the wall that surrounded the town, the traces of the remaining towers and the tannery itself, the only one preserved in the city of the dozen that have been recorded. What’s more, it’s the best preserved one in Catalonia.
A city’s heritage can also be explained through nature. This is made possible at the
Museum of Natural Sciences of Granollers, known as the Tela after the name of the modernist tower bult in 1912 that houses a part of it. It has several spaces, including the Planetarium, which allows you to decipher the night sky. The Antonio Jonch Cuspinera gardens are a highlight at the Museum, where you can see different plant species found in the Vallés.
You can discover Granollers’ textile past at La Térmica, which houses part of the history of the cotton industry in the Vallés. Built in 1951, it was the location of the old
Roca Umbert factory —now a space for artistic creation— which transformed and distributed the energy to convert cotton into clothing. Now, thanks to audiovisual pieces, you can discover the original elements and pieces that were part of La Térmica during the fifties.
You can visit these spaces and many others by following several itineraries that run through the municipality and may even start at the city’s iconic Renaissance Porxada. For example, the modernist and noucentista route, which visits the buildings from these periods, or that of bombed Granollers, which shows some of the emblematic sites affected by these episodes and
Can Jonch, Cultural Centre for Peace.
An excursion proposed in collaboration with the magazine
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