Terrassa

Terrassa lies inland from Barcelona in the Valles countryside, where routes through northeastern Catalonia connect coastal markets with farming settlements and mountain districts. Its medieval community grew around a compact town and a rural hinterland, supported by agriculture, local trade, and craft production. The churches associated with the older episcopal center of Egara preserved an important religious inheritance, linking the town's later history with the Christian communities of late antiquity.

Vallparadís Castle served as a Carthusian monastery from 1344 to 1413, one of the town's surviving medieval institutions. In 1619 several women were prosecuted for witchcraft in Terrassa, and five were executed. Woollen textiles later became central to the town's development, linking its craft traditions to the industrial growth of the nineteenth century.