Cabrils is a city and

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in the

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Maresme Maresme () is a ''comarca'' (county) located along the Catalan Mediterranean coast in Spain, between the ''comarques'' of Barcelonès (at the Southwest) and Selva (at the Northeast), and also bordering with Vallès Oriental (at the west). It ...

in the

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Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ...

and

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Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the no ...

, Spain. It is situated between the municipalities of Vilassar de Mar,

Vilassar de Dalt Vilassar de Dalt () is a village in Catalonia, Spain, in the province of Barcelona and the ''comarca'' of Maresme. The name comes from the Roman name ''Villa Azari'', later changed to ''Vilassar''. In the 20th century, it split into two villag ...

, Òrrius, Argentona and Cabrera de Mar, about ten kilometres from

Mataró Mataró () is the capital and largest town of the ''comarca'' of the Maresme, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia Autonomous Community, Spain. It is located on the Costa del Maresme, to the south of Costa Brava, between Cabrera de Mar a ...

, the comarca capital. Cabrils is surrounded by the hills of Cirers and Montcabrer, among abundant

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s of

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s and

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s and is largely dominated by housing developments.

History

Cabrils came into history after it was first mentioned in 1037, as a part of the jurisdiction of the neighboring

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. It was under the jurisdiction of the castle until 1820, when Cabrils achieved the right to be an independent town with its own administration.

Climate

The

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of Cabrils is not unlike other

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climates, with soft

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in winter and a warm summer. It has an irregular regime of

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, with a period of drought in the months of July and August and a maximum precipitation in autumn, especially in September and October. The average annual precipitation for the period 1981-2004 was 632 mm/year, while the medium temperature of the warmest month (August) was 23,6 °C and the coldest was 9,2 °C (January). The torrential precipitation regime is frequent in autumn, having attained on some occasions values over 150 mm in a day (a fourth part of the annual medium precipitation). Its location within a valley, surrounded by hills and small mountains belonging to the Catalan pre-litoral mountain range, makes it a mild place in the summer and humid in winter.

Economy

The traditional

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of Cabrils was based on

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled peop ...

. However beginning in the 1980s Cabrils grew its population significantly and is now primarily a residential city. Cabrils has currently the third highest income per capita in

and the eighth highest in

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Holidays

* Els Tres Tombs * Festa Major - Patronal Feast Days: 3 May and 18 August * Flower carpets on the feast of Corpus Christi: usually in June * Mostra gastronòmica - Exhibition of Gastronomy in August

References

External links

Official website

Government data pages

Interesting and historic places
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