El Vallès (or simply Vallès) is a historical county in

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, located in the center of the

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. It is nowadays represented by two separate administrative divisions ( ''comarques'') which are part of the

Barcelona Province Barcelona (, ) is a province of eastern Spain, in the center of the autonomous community of Catalonia. The province is bordered by the provinces of Tarragona, Lleida, and Girona, and by the Mediterranean Sea. Its area is .Western Vallès, which has two capitals,

Sabadell Sabadell () is a city in Catalonia, Spain. It is in the south of the ''comarca'' of Vallès Occidental and its joint capital (co-capital), on the River Ripoll, north of Barcelona. Sabadell is located above sea level. Sabadell pioneered the Ind ...

and

Terrassa Terrassa (, es, Tarrasa) is a city in the east central region of Catalonia, Spain, in the province of Barcelona, ''comarca'' of Vallès Occidental, of which it is the co-capital along with Sabadell. The name ''Terrassa'' derives from Latin ' ...

; and the Eastern Vallès, with

Granollers Granollers () is a city in central Catalonia, about 30 kilometres north-east of Barcelona. It is the capital and most densely populated city in the comarca of Vallès Oriental. Granollers is now a bustling business centre, having grown from a t ...

as its capital. The present division of Vallès has its historical roots in the

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s of Granollers and Sabadell - Terrassa, established in 1834. However, the first time this subdivision was explicitly used as sanctioned by law was in 1936, with the official division of Catalonia in ''comarques''. In 2015, four of the municipalities in Eastern Vallès became part of a newly created ''comarca'': the

Moianès Moianès () is a Comarques of Catalonia, ''comarca'' in the centre of Catalonia, Spain. It became a comarca in May 2015, following approval in a local referendum and by the Parliament of Catalonia. Its 10 municipalities were in the comarques of Ba ...

. Some parts of the Vallès region belong to the

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and the

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with public transportations systems such as FGC's so-called ''

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''.

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Consell Comarcal del Vallès OccidentalConsell Commarcal del Vallès Oriental
{{DEFAULTSORT:Valles Geography of Catalonia

See also

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