Mataró

Mataró. Mataró is a relatively small town in Europe, its population is 118 891 (in 2006), but it is a commercially and industrially important settlement of the region. Naturally, its vicinity to Barcelona and the fact that the town is part of a touristic zone has a strong impact on it. It tells a lot about the relation of the two towns that Spain’s, just as Catalonia’s first railway was constructed between Barcelona and Mataró. Still today the importance of industrial establishments, factories and warehouses is big. The touristic importance of the town is growing, and many of the formerly industrial areas get new functions: primarily expensive flats of office buildings are being built in place of the old plants.