Alella is a village

Village

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 in the comarca

Comarques of Catalonia

This is a list of the comarques of Catalonia . A comarca is roughly equivalent to a US "county" or a UK "district". However, in the context of Catalonia, the term "county" can be a bit misleading, because in medieval Catalonia, the most important rulers were counts, notably the Counts of Barcelona...

 (shire) of Maresme

Maresme

Maresme is a comarca located along the Catalan Mediterranean coast in Spain, between the comarques of Barcelonès and Selva , and also bordering with Vallès Oriental ....

 in
Catalunya, Spain

Spain

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. It is situated on the south-west side of the granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

 Litoral range, just by the sea. The town is known for
the production of wine

Wine

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, cava and perfume

Perfume

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s, but is also a residential centre for Barcelona

Barcelona

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. What used to be the old Roman Road (Via Augusta) uniting Rome and Andalusia, is still today a narrow road running through the village.

Demography

Notable natives

• Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia
  Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia
  Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia was a Spanish Catalan free-thinker and anarchist....
  
   often simply known as Francisco Ferrer, a free-thinker and anarchist
  Anarchism
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  .

External links

• Official website
• http://www.alella.cat/turisme
• Information - Generalitat de Catalunya
• Statistical information - Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya