Canovelles

Numerous archeological finds from the Neolithic Period and the Roman Empire have been found in Canovelles. One representative is the “Menhir”, a replica of which is displayed at the Can Palots Theater exhibition hall.

The first time the term Canovelles appears in a document is in 1008 AD, in a document pertaining to the Abbot of Sant Cugat.

Between the 1950s and the 1970s, many families from Extremadura and Andalusia arrived to the municipality, increasing the population by a factor of twenty. Since the end of the 1990s people from Morocco, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America have been arriving to Canovelles in great numbers.

During the 1970s, clandestine groups of Marxists organized against the Franquist dictatorship, some of them comprised by more than a hundred militants.

Recent history:

A celebration was held in 2008 to celebrate the oldest document (written in 1008) in which a writer mentions the municipality's name.

In 2007, Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) gained an absolute majority in the municipal government under the leadership of José Orive. In 2008, this government approved a thirty percent increase in pay for the mayor and local councillors. This pay increase marked José Orive as an object of controversy when hundreds of stickers criticizing the decision were posted on lampposts and other public objects throughout the municipality. After these stickers had been up for two days, the municipal government paid a cleaning company to remove them. Orive left his position as the Mayor of Canovelles for personal reasons. Emilio Cordero succeeded Orive as the Mayor of Canovelles in 2016.

•Monument a Josep Sala i Perramon

•Xemeneia de Can Comes

•Torre Pinós

•Domus d'Olivet

•Mina de Can Canyelles

•Dolmen de Santa Justa

•Xemeneia de Roca Umbert

•Salvador Casanova

•L'Adoberia (Centre d'interpretació històrica)

•Salting Granollers

•La Jonquera - Sant Adrià del Besós (GR 2, 221.74 km)

•Granollers-La Roca del Vallès (PR C-36)

•Sender de Palaudàries (PR-C 34, 13.65 km)

•Sender de Santa Eulàlia de Ronçana (PR-C 10, 18.61 km)

•Sender de la Tordera al Llobregat (GR-97, 107.13 km)

•Lliçà d'Amunt (PR-C 32)

•Cèllecs-Sant Bartmeu de Cabanyes (SL-C 137, 5.690 km)

•Les Franqueses del Vallès (PR-C 142, 16.580 km)

•El Meridià Verd (180 km)

•De la Tordera al Llobregat. Variant Marata - Pla de l'Espinal (GR 97.1, 15.4 km)

•El Camí IT7TR2 El Camí de Llevant: de Montserrat a Salses (CC-C)

•Antonio Hidalgo Morilla, futbolista y entrenador español

Alcaldía: Emilio Cordero Soria

Web oficial: http://www.canovelles.cat/

Carreteras:

Autopista C-17: Salida por la Ronda Norte (salida Canovellas) y por la salida Granollers-Canovellas carreteras BV1432 y BV1439.

Ferrocarril:

Estación de Granollers-Canovellas: línea 3 de Rodalies de Catalunya.

•Fundació Hospital Asil de Granollers — Avinguda Francesc Ribas s/n

•Mútua del Carme

•Centre d'Atenció Primària Canovelles

•Farmacia Farmàcia M. Teresa Blasi Gutierrez — Carrer València 17

•Farmacia Farmàcia Montaña — Carrer de Joan Prim 207

•Farmacia Farmàcia Gemma Font — Carrer de Roger de Flor 45

•Farmacia Farmàcia Arimany — Plaça Josep Maluquer i Salvador 11

•Farmacia Farmàcia Bellavista — Carrer de Francesc Macià i Llussà 56

•Farmacia Farmàcia Dalmau — Avinguda de Sant Esteve 23

•Centre d'Atenció Primària (CAP) Vallès Oriental — Carrer del Museu 19