Malgrat de Mar - Main Sights

Main Sights

• Church of St Nicolau. Built on 16th century and enlarged in the 18th century. Because of its size, it is known as the Cathedral of the Coast.
• Peixateries velles (The old fish market). On the south side there were the meat market, while on the North side there were the fish market. On this later side, the stone-made waiter where the fish was sold is still conserved.
• Town hall. A Modernist style building, which was inaugurated on 15 August 1913.
• La Cooperativa (The Cooperative - The library). One of the oldest buildings in Malgrat, built by the Clapers family in the 16th century. Later, it was a blood hospital (18th century), the Casino Malgratenc (a cultural society) on the 19th century, and a worker's cooperative on the 20th century. Finally, it has become the library in the 21st century.
• Ca l'Arnau. A Modernist style building, built on 1914. Recently, it had been renewed and it has become the Music School.
• The Old Hospital. In 1441, Hug Descolomer founded this hospital to help the poor people. Nowadays it has become a therapeutic center, and its chapel is used as an exhibition gallery
• El castell. It is a tower located on the top of the hill, just in the center of the town. It is surrounded by a park, and it can be accessed by the Hug Descolomer road, totally constituted by steps, next to the Passatge dels Arcs (Arches passage). The park offers a panoramical view of Malgrat and its surrounding areas.
• Torre d'en Riera (also called Torre de la Vídua de Can Sala). It's a Modernist style house.
• Parc de Can Campassol. It is a park located in Carrer de Mar street. It housed a colonial style house where Zenobia Camprubí was born (the wife of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Nobel Award of Literature, 1956). In the artificial lake of the park there is a sculpture of her.
• La Pilona. It is an artificial platform located in the middle of the sea. In 1910s, it was used to load ships with de mineral extracted from the mines of Can Palomeres, in the mountains located in the North of Malgrat. There were an aerial structure to transport the mineral from the mines towards the platform.
• Torre de l'Esquena. It is a 19th century house.
• Plaça de Marià Cubí. It is a square inaugurated on 1956. The sculpture is dedicated to Marià Cubí i Soler, born in Malgrat on 1801, who became a frenologist and linguist.