Molins de Rei

Molins de Rei is a Catalan city in the province of Barcelona, in northeastern Spain. It is located in the comarca of Baix Llobregat and belongs to the metropolitan area Area Metropolitana de Barcelona. The city has 24,878 inhabitants ( 1 January 2013) on an area of 15.85 square kilometers, of which a large part is located in the Natural Park of Collserola.

Geography and Location

Molins de Rei is located approximately 15 kilometers southwest of the center of the Catalan capital of Barcelona, between the left bank of the Llobregat river, and on the Serra de Collserola. Adjacent cities and towns are in the north of El Papiol and Sant Cugat del Vallès, which already lies in the county of Vallès Occidental, in the northeast of Barcelona, ​​Sant Feliu de Llobregat to the south and west of Sant Vicenç dels Horts and Pallejà. Apart from Sant Cugat del Vallès it forms with all other neighboring communities a densely built-up unit in the greater Barcelona.

Traffic

The Molins de Rei train station is on lines 1 (the start and end here lies ) and 4 of Rodalies_Barcelona. Trains in Barcelona's city center run every 10 minutes.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Margarita Xirgu (1888-1969), actress

Twinning

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