Centelles

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 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.

In the Barcelona province of Cataluña, L'Estany is built around one of Catalonia's great Romanesque monasteries, its 72 sculpted cloister capitals and stone village streets drawing visitors to a place shaped by nearly a thousand years of monastic life.

The ancient capital of the Osona region, Vic carries two thousand years of continuous history, from an Iberian tribal centre and Roman temple to a medieval cathedral city whose seminary shaped the literary revival of Catalonia.

A Roman spa town in Barcelona province where 74°C thermal waters have drawn visitors since antiquity, preserving the best-surviving Roman baths on the Iberian Peninsula.

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 compact stone village above the Catalan countryside, declared a site of cultural interest by the Generalitat, its medieval tower still standing watch over forty centuries-old houses.

Built around a Benedictine monastery founded in 1038, this Girona town in Cataluña still carries its medieval shape in a Gothic church, a Romanesque bell tower, and a historic centre declared a protected ensemble.

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.