Calella
Calella [ kəleʎə ] is a Spanish city on the Catalan Costa del Maresme and is 56 kilometers from Barcelona. For better distinction of Calella de Palafrugell are not official designations Calella de la Costa is in use. Given the large number of German tourists, the place is also called Calella dels Alemanys (in Catalan ) or Calella de los Alemanes known ( in Spanish).
In Calella live to 7.9 sq km about 18,469 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). Main source of income is - as with most of the towns on the Costa del Maresme - tourism, in the summer during the main holiday season come to a inhabitants three tourists.
Cityscape
The town of Calella is characterized by many hotels and other guest accommodation. Now, however, the worse places to be built back or completely renovated - new hotels there are almost no more. Instead Appartementbauten are increasingly built, which are mostly used as weekend homes for wealthy Barceloneses.
Even if the city is seen from the beach dominated by hotels to Calella still retains an old town. The majority of tourists are young people who are attracted by the large party area. The Casc Antic has quite the charm of a typical Catalan town, even if the city administration places such as the Plaça de la Constitució at the town hall, or the Plaça de l' Església at the Church of Santa Maria i Sant Nicolau for easier cleaning with plates and stones has redesigned. Above the old town, which is largely on foot through narrow streets and bazaar streets, separates the National II, which runs from the French-Spanish border to Barcelona, the old town from the new town.
The large sandy beach and the beach promenade are separated by the tracks of the Rodalies, a kind of train that runs along the Costa Brava and the Costa del Maresme, to Barcelona. The modernization of the tracks and trains as part of the Summer Olympic Games in 1992, the former noise has been greatly reduced.
Landscape and environment
Calella has a roughly 3.5 kilometer long, coarse-grained sand beach. Below the lighthouse beyond the end of the main beach - around the rock - there is a small bay, which is recorded as a nudist beach. The beach Rocca Grossa is like the beach Roca pins south of the lighthouse and belongs to the family farmed beaches. It is closed bays which are accessible by stairs from the N II. There are two other beaches, but they are more difficult to achieve. In the hinterland of Calella, the wooded ridge of the Serra de Montnegre, a nature reserve which offers numerous hiking trails stretches.
Attractions
Other attractions in Calella include the City Hall, the neo-classical church of Sant Maria i Sant Nicolau, who built in 1859 the lighthouse, as shaped by a Mediterranean flair shopping street, as well as the Les Torretes mentioned ruins of two signal towers a range of optical telegraph in the 19th century, the first ( built in 1848 ) tower served the military messaging, the second, higher tower ( built in 1857 ) of commercial messaging.
Ruins of the Signal towers Les Torretes
Town Square with the Church of Santa Maria i Sant Nicolau in the background
The Museu - Arxiu ( Museum archive) of the city
Twinning
- Ille -sur- Tet in the department of Pyrénées- Orientales ( France) since December 13, 1987