Municipality of Manresa

Ajuntament de Manresa is a local public body, specifically a municipality of Catalonia, Spain. The city of Manresa with the population number of 75.475 (2016) are surface area 41,66 sq km has a historical background of over one thousand years and it’s located in the heart of Catalonia, nearby Barcelona. At the crossroads of two rivers (Llobregat and Cardener) and three strategic communication axes in Catalonia, Manresa has an industrial and commercial tradition. It’s the capital of Bages County (174.381 inhabitants) and it plays a very important role of capital status of a wider territory (over 250.000 people): the so-called Central Catalonia. Due to the industrialization process, the urban development and the growth of population consolidated Manresa as a commercial center in Central Catalonia. The city center continues to offer a wide variety of local commercial establishments, which coexist with new trends of commercial distribution. As a capital of the Bages county and, de facto, of Central Catalonia region, Manresa is a great provider of services in fields as health (3 hospitals), education (3 universities in a shared campus), local and regional administration, research centers (Technological Centre of Manresa and Technical University of Manresa research department) and enterprises’ services. One of the main objectives of the Town Hall of Manresa, together with the rest of administrations and private institutions, is to concentrate public & private efforts to boost cooperation between Administration, universities, research centers and private stakeholders, in order to become one of the best knowledge and innovation based economies of the country.
We have local competencies in education and youth and we develop public policies in both fields.