Cabrera de Mar | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Spain Province of Barcelona#Spain |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Catalonia |
Pushpin Map1: | Spain |
Pushpin Map Caption1: | Location of Cabrera de Mar within Spain |
Coordinates: | 41.5281°N 2.3961°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Spain |
Subdivision Type1: | Community |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Barcelona |
Subdivision Type3: | Comarca |
Subdivision Name3: | Maresme |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Jordi Mir Boix (2015)[1] |
Area Footnotes: | [2] |
Area Total Km2: | 9.0 |
Elevation M: | 104 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Demonym: | Cabrerenc |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 08349 |
Cabrera de Mar (in Catalan; Valencian pronounced as /kəˈβɾeɾə ðə ˈmaɾ/) is a municipality of the comarca of Maresme in Catalonia, Spain.
It is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, between the municipalities of Vilassar de Mar and Mataró, although the urban centre is at about inland, in a small valley between the hills of Burriac (where the remains of the Sant Vicenç de Burriac castle are located) and Montcabrer. It also borders with the municipalities of Cabrils and Argentona.
The population is 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 on 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 the 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.