Bellaterra is a wealthy quarter of Cerdanyola del Vallès

Cerdanyola del Vallès

Cerdanyola del Vallès is a municipality in the comarca of the Vallès Occidental in Catalonia . It is situated in the on the north side of the Collserola ridge. The town is served by the A-7 and C-58 autopistes, the N-150 road and the RENFE railway commuter lines R4, R7 and railway regional line Ca4...

, in the metropolitan area of Barcelona (Catalonia

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

, Spain

Spain

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). It's famous for being the location of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). The urbanisation of the neighbourhood started in 1929 by the pharmacist Bartomeu, who chartered a piece of land pertaining his father in law and built the Ferrocarrils de Catalunya (antecessor of FGC

Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya

Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya , or FGC, is a railway company which operates several unconnected lines in Catalonia, Spain....

) railway station Bellaterra. At the present moment Bellaterra is undergoing an administrative status change into a decentralised municipal entity (EMD).

See also

• Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Famous resident include pop star Shakira, and Gaeilic footballers Ronan Sloan and Michael Stevenson.