El Manresà is a neighbourhood of

Badalona Badalona (, , , ) is a municipality in Barcelonès county, in Catalonia (Spain). It is located to the north east of Barcelona, on the left bank of the Besòs River and on the Mediterranean Sea, in the Barcelona metropolitan area. By population, ...

, located next the sea in the north limit of city with

Montgat Montgat () is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of the Maresme in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated on the coast between Badalona (Barcelonès) and El Masnou, to the north-east of Barcelona. The town is both a tourist centre and a (somewhat ex ...

. It belongs to district 1. During the 19th century appeared a small slum in the outskirts of Badalona by the sea and near to the municipality limit with Montgat. In fact, the name is first documented in 1827 in the

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and it comes from a

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of the area called Cal Manresà, which was demolished in 1968 with the construction of the C-31 highway. The neighbourhood has a low population. In 2015 it had 339 inhabitants. The growth is related with the near neighbourhood of Les Mallorquines of Montgat, however new inhabitants arrived in the 1950s as a result of an immigration process. Since the 1970s the neighborhood suffered a process of depopulation because of the establishment of and industrial area, and the neighbors organised themselves and created an association in aim to preserve the neighborhood. Today the area is dedicated to industry and households at a time, which has produced some conflicts between the neighbours and the industries. Its beach is named Barca Maria, it has a length of 660 metres, between the stream of Vallmajor and the passage of Cussó. A notable neighbour is

Dolors Sabater Maria Dolors Sabater Puig (born 28 November 1960) is a Catalan teacher, social activist and politician from Spain. She was mayor of Badalona from 2015 to 2018, and elected to the Parliament of Catalonia in 2021. Career Sabater is a teacher wi ...

, who was mayor of Badalona from 2015 to 2018.

References

Geography of Badalona Neighbourhoods in Spain {{Barcelona-geo-stub