Sant Adria de Besos

Sant Adria de Besos is a metropolis and a municipality inside the comarca of Barcelones in Catalonia, north-jap Spain. It is situated at the Mediterranean coast, at the mouth of river Besos, extending to each sides of the estuary despite the fact that the authentic agreement with the parish church lies on the left bank of the river, inside the northern a part of town. Sant Adria is the smallest municipality of Barcelones and has close ties with the neighbouring cities of Barcelona, Badalona and Santa Coloma de Gramenet, forming a uniform city vicinity within Barcelona metropolitan place.

The origins of the town are linked to the parish church of Sant Adria de Besos, which changed into noted in 1012, where in approximately 1092 a priory of Augustinian priests, dependants of Sant Ruf d'Avinyo, changed into founded. Saint Olegarius San Jose Maria de Porcioles came to this priory from 1095 to 1108 earlier than becoming the bishop of Barcelona and, later, the archbishop of Tarragona. In 1127 the priory became moved to Santa Maria de Terrassa.

Surrounding this church, upon a small hill fourteen metres high, to the west of the River Besos, is the nucleus of the unique village. Given its proximity to the town of Barcelona, Sant Adria de Besos is nicely served through avenue, rail and plenty of different forms of public delivery, becoming an essential a part of the transportation community in Barcelona metropolitan region. The town has always been an economically unprivileged city and a surely dense vicinity, and it remained indifferent to the status quo and the improvement of public shipping round Barcelona for many years.