Touring Gavà
Gavà in Barcelona (Catalonia) with it's 45,994 residents is a town located in Spain about 304 mi (or 490 km) east of Madrid, the country's capital place.
Time in Gavà is now 07:39 AM (Saturday). The local timezone is named Europe / Madrid with an UTC offset of one hour. We know of 9 airports nearby Gavà, of which 3 are larger airports. The closest airport in Spain is Barcelona International Airport in a distance of 4 mi (or 7 km), East. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There are several Unesco world heritage sites nearby. The closest heritage site in Spain is Works of Antoni Gaudí in a distance of 11 mi (or 17 km), North-East. We collected 10 points of interest near this location. Need some hints on where to stay? We compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Being here already, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Castelldefels, Santa Coloma de Cervello, Begues, Sant Vicenc dels Horts and Sant Feliu de Llobregat. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info. Let's start with some photos from the area.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Air Rooms Barcelona Airport by Premium Traveller
SB BCN Events
TRYP Barcelona Aeropuerto Hotel
Best Western Hotel Mediterraneo
FrontAir Congress
Rey Don Jaime Gran Hotel
Playafels Apartamentos
Playafels
Bel Air
Castellmar Apartments
Videos from this area
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Bon Viatge Trambaix station
Bon Viatge Trambaix station (Nice trip in English) is located in the town of Sant Joan Despí, on the outskirts of Barcelona, Catalonia. This stop includes two of the three Trambaix routes (T1 and T2). Bon Viatge refers to the main street in Sant Joan Despí's Old Quarter (Barri Centre in Catalan), where there are around 15,000 inhabitants (Sant Joan Despí has around 35,000 inhabitants).
Church of Colònia Güell
The Church of Colònia Güell is an unfinished work by Antoni Gaudí. It was built as a place of worship for the people in a manufacturing suburb in Santa Coloma de Cervelló, near Barcelona. Colònia Güell was the brainchild of Count Eusebi de Güell. However with Güell losing profits from his business, the money ran out and only the crypt was completed.
Estadi Cornellà-El Prat
Estadi Cornellà-El Prat is an all-seater football stadium on the outskirts of Cornellà and El Prat de Llobregat, near Barcelona. It took three years to build and cost approximately 60 million euros. Completed in the summer of 2009, it is the new home of RCD Espanyol and was awarded as Venue of the Year getting the Stadium Business Awards on 18 June 2010 in Dublin. The stadium has a capacity of 40,500 and replaced their previous stadium, the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys.
Santa Coloma de Cervelló
Santa Coloma de Cervelló is a municipality situated in the comarca of Baix Llobregat, at the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The town has 7081 people. There are 3 urbanized zones in this town; the town centre, Colònia Güell area (which is around a former industrial factory) and residential districts. The Church of Colònia Güell, from the renowned architect Antoni Gaudí is located here.
UE Santboiana
Unió Esportiva Santboiana is a Spanish rugby union club. The club was established in 1921 and currently competes in the División de Honor de Rugby competition, the highest level of Spanish club rugby. The club are based in Sant Boi de Llobregat in Catalonia, considered to be one of the capitals of Spanish rugby. Santboiana play in blue and white colours. The team have in the past won both the Spanish League and the Copa del Rey de Rugby as well as the Copa de Catalunya and Copa Ibèrica.
Mediterranean Technology Park
The Mediterranean Technology Park (PMT) is a science and technology park located in Castelldefels, a town in the Baix Llobregat county, in Catalonia, 10 minutes from the airport and 20 minutes from the centre of Barcelona.
Cornellà Centre (Barcelona Metro and Rodalies)
Cornellà Centre is the name of a station in the Barcelona Metro and Renfe rail networks (in which it's known as simply Cornellà), located in Plaça de l'Estació, central Cornellà de Llobregat, a municipality in the southern half of the metropolitan area of Barcelona. It's been the southern terminus of Barcelona metro line 5 since 1983, when it was opened. It's also served by the Renfe-operated Rodalies commuter train lines R1 and R4, as well as Trambaix routes T1 and T2.
Castelldefels School of Technology
The Castelldefels School of Technology is a higher educational establishment on Baix Llobregat Campus in Castelldefels, Catalonia, Spain. It is part of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) and offers courses in aeronautics and telecomunications.
Roman Catholic Diocese of Sant Feliu de Llobregat
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sant Feliu de Llobregat (Latin: Sancti Felicis de Llobregat) is a diocese located in the city of Sant Feliu de Llobregat in the Ecclesiastical province of Barcelona in Spain.
Molí Nou – Ciutat Cooperativa (Barcelona Metro)
Molí Nou | Ciutat Cooperativa is a railway station near Molí Nou in the municipality of Sant Boi de Llobregat operated by Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya as part of the Metro del Baix Llobregat and since 2002 (with the incorporation of L8) a line of the extended Barcelona Metro network. It opened on February 13, 2000. It's the current terminus of L8 and the last station of Metro del Baix Llobregat in fare zone 1.
Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper
The Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper is the training ground and academy base of Catalan football club, FC Barcelona, it was officially opened on June 1, 2006, and was named in honor of Joan Gamper, founder of the club. Located in Sant Joan Despí and covering 136.839 m2 it is used since 2006 for youth team training and matches and since January 2009 for the first team training.
Aeroport railway station (el Prat)
Aeroport railway station is a commuter railway station in Terminal B of Barcelona International Airport. Currently it is the only station which serves the Airport, with a Rodalies Barcelona service. A new terminal, Terminal 1 is planned and this and Terminal B are to be served by two underground stations and two railway stations of Rodalies Barcelona, one of them replacing the current station. It is also planned to build a high speed branch of Madrid-Barcelona high-speed rail line.
Citilab
Citilab is a digital lab for citizen innovation in Cornellà de Llobregat, Catalonia. It mixes citizen based innovation with research, entrepreneurship and training. Its rationale is to offer a resource platform for citizens so that they can start their own projects around technology and the internet, specially the collaborative and audiovisual internet.
Cornellà-Riera (Barcelona Metro)
Cornellà-Riera is a railway station in Cornellà de Llobregat, in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, part of the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya subway line L8, and therefore part of the Barcelona Metro and Metro del Baix Llobregat networks. It's on fare zone 1. The station opened in 1985, when the metro line section from Sant Josep to Cornellà was turned into an underground.
Sant Boi (Barcelona Metro)
Sant Boi is a railway station in the municipality of Sant Boi de Llobregat in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. It is operated by Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya as part of its Llobregat-Anoia line, and includes a Barcelona Metro service numbered L8, besides regular commuter train lines S33, S4, S8, R5 and R6. Sant Boi station opened in 1912.
La Morella
La Morella or Morella is a mountain located in Begues municipality, Catalonia, Spain. It has an altitude of 593 metres above sea level. It is the second highest point of the Garraf Massif, Catalan Coastal Range.
Castelldefels train accident
The Castelldefels train accident occurred on 23 June 2010 when a passenger train struck a group of people who were crossing the railway on the level at Platja de Castelldefels station near Barcelona, in Catalonia in northern Spain. Twelve people were killed, and fourteen injured: the majority of the victims were of Latin American origin, particularly from Ecuador. The accident occurred on St.
Platja de Castelldefels railway station
Platja de Castelldefels railway station is a small stop on the Rodalies Barcelona R2 line serving the beach district of Castelldefels (about 2 km south of the main town), approximately 17 minutes by train from Barcelona Sants Station. It is less than 200 metres from the beach, and is very busy during the summer months but almost deserted in winter. The station has two 200 m-long platforms connected by a footbridge and, since November 2009, an underpass.
Canal Olímpic de Catalunya
The Canal Olímpic de Catalunya is a canal located in Castelldefels, Catalonia, Spain. Constructed in 1991, it hosted the canoe sprint events for the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Catalunya en Miniatura
Catalunya en Miniatura is miniature park inaugurated in 1983 in Torrelles de Llobregat, 17 km from Barcelona. With 60.000 square meters, 35.000 of them devoted to the scale models, it is one of the largest miniature parks in the world, and the largest of the 14 miniature building exhibitions present in Europe. It displays 147 models of palaces, churches, bridges and other buildings from Catalonia and Mallorca and it includes all the major works by the renowned architect Antoni Gaudí.
Gavà Museum and the Gavà Mines Archaeological Park
The Gavà Museum and the Gavà Mines Archaeological Park, founded in 1978, comprises two facilities: the Gavà Museum and the Gavà Mines Archaeological Park. It is part of the Barcelona Provincial Council Local Museum Network.
Sant Boi de Llobregat Museum
The aim of the Sant Boi de Llobregat Museum is to recover, conserve, study and delve more deeply into the cultural heritage and historic memory of Sant Boi de Llobregat. The main museum collections are those of Iberian, Roman and Medieval archaeological remains unearthed during the different excavations carried out in the town and different ethnographic sources. The museum houses the permanent exhibitions "Sant Boi. Temps i espai" (Sant Boi.
Jujol Centre – Can Negre
Can Negre is a 17th-century farmhouse located in Sant Joan Despí, which was transformed by Art Nouveau architect Josep Maria Jujol i Gibert between 1915 and 1930.
Ca n'Amat
Ca n’Amat is a museum facility owned by the municipality of Viladecans, which is part of the Barcelona Provincial Council Local Museum Network. The building is an example of the typical country home a well-to-do family would have in the 19th century, with elements connected to agricultural life, the basic activity in Viladecans in the 19th and part of the 20th centuries.
Sant Boi Bridge
The Sant Boi Bridge is the first steel structure in the high-speed railway joining the city of Madrid and Barcelona. The 2854 ft (870 m) long bridge is very close to the international airport of Barcelona. This high speed railway viaduct is in concept similar to Llinars Bridge but with a different geometry, is a combination of feasibility, technology, aesthetics and integration in the territory. The bridge crosses several existing infrastructures (highway, road and railway).