| SENTMENAT, more than 1500 years of history. Geographic and human situation. |
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In the arqueological parish studies, we can secure yet that Sentmenat come-in in the history in the V century and now come in too in the legends that some old books says, how one that explain about Almansur, that he came and burned part of Barcelona and some cities of Vallés countries. This action occurred in 985 after Christ and the legend says that in the caves of count the Count Borrell hid in for not fall in the hands of this bellicose personage. In general opinion, the rests of Arab ceramics find in this coves near the Salt de Guanta (Guanta falls), justifies this legend. The legend says that the plants that borns near the buttress of the castle named "tàperes" (capers), they are used to condiment some food. Somebody say that they are natural of beyond of the Iberian Peninsula and many times have been attempted transplantate to another places but never have survived. The municipal township of Sentmenat is situated in the region of Vallès Occidental at 29 Kms from Barcelona, it is the earth of the triangle that forms the tree main cities of Barcelona province: Sabadell, Terrassa and Granollers. With and extension of 28.4 Km2 and one population of more than 51oo people,that have builded one city that have evolutioned trough the years, working the lands and now in the industrials factories zones. The people of Sentmenat have been doing Sentmenat bigger trough the pas of the years, thanks to the work and of the our ancestors, we are the heir of this nice city that it be proud of the place we have borned. Sentmenat, name founded wrote in Latin more of 1.000 years ago, is a city that have in the municipal township very old relics that adduce a very old historic personality in the time. One example we had in the Dolmen de la Serra Cavallera, near at the lands of Can Vinyals Masia (Masia = very tipical Catalan house) and protected by the Guanta Castle Mountain. A little more to the Nord, near the municipal township of Caldes de Montbui, we will find the Iberia village and the medieval rests of Torre Roja (Red Tower) with the circular plant placed as a medieval defense; more to up begins the Farrell mountain, at near 800 meters high, and by the another face we will found Puig Rodò, the mountain of Can Fritòs now named "La Segrera", Guanta -with his water falls-, and the Font falsa (false fountain). And we could go till to the Puig de la Creu (mountain of the Cross), of 664 meters high that join us with the municipal township of Castellar del Vallès and Sant Llorenç Savall. The Puig de la Creu mountain is the highest mountain of Sentmenat. |