Caldes de Montbui

Perched on a cold Catalan hilltop in Barcelona province, Castellterçol carries more than eleven centuries of history, from its ninth-century castle origins to Bourbon skirmishes fought in its streets.

A small Catalan village whose Romanesque church, ruined castle, and medieval streetscape have survived intact at the edge of the Sant Llorenç del Munt i l'Obac natural park.

A walled Catalan town whose single surviving medieval gateway, baroque church, and castle ruins trace eight centuries of baronial and later county history in the hills of Barcelona province.

A castle-crowned village on the Llobregat river in Barcelona province, where a Romanesque church, medieval fortifications, and a natural waterfall carved from limestone have stood since the tenth century.

A Catalan market town with written records stretching back to 912, where a 10th-century parish church still holds its original consecration deed and the birthplace of avant-garde theatre group La Fura dels Baus sits among forests, farmhouses, and prehistoric caves.

A Catalan hilltop town with roots going back over a thousand years, its medieval castle holding one of Spain's finest private archives and its streets lined with prehistoric dolmens, Roman kilns, and centuries of layered history.

A Catalan town of nearly 13,000 people in the Maresme comarca, known across the region for its extraordinary concentration of more than two hundred natural springs.

A coastal town of 17,000 on the Barcelona shore of the Maresme, built around the province's principal fishing port and shaped by four centuries of seafaring, shipbuilding, and trade across the western Mediterranean.

A small Catalan coast town that claims more listed modernist and historical buildings per square metre than anywhere else in Cataluña, its streets shaped by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner.