Village
Alella is a wine-growing town in the Maresme, about 2 kilometres from the sea and 18 from Barcelona, with its own designation of origin and several rural watchtowers. It has 10,262 inhabitants (INE 2025) and has been documented since the year 975, under the county of Barcelona; its seigneurial rights passed through the Banyeres, Desplà, Gralla, Montcada and Fabra families, the last of which obtained the marquisate of Alella in 1889. The parish church of Sant Feliu preserves the Romanesque bell tower with Lombard arcading and a Renaissance façade from 1611; Gaudí, who spent long stays in the town, designed but never built the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. Around the centre there are masies, some from the 14th century. The main festival is on 1 August, and in September the grape-harvest festival.
Monument
Sant Feliu d'Alella is the parish church of Alella, declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest. Its first stone was laid on 9 September 1454 and the works were completed in 1463, being enlarged between 1611 and 1613 once it became too small. After the 1878 demolition of the Virreina palace in Gràcia, its bells were moved to the belfry of this church; in 1886 the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament was built and in 1975 the main altar was renovated, to a design by Lluís Bonet i Garí, on the occasion of the millennium of the place name Alella. It has a single nave with a pentagonal apse and six side chapels, with a façade with a Baroque portal and, beside it, a Gothic voussoired portal that today gives access to the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.
Monument
A Gothic tower located in the municipality of Alella, in the Maresme, declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest; it is the only tower of cylindrical plan in the municipality. It rises on the right-hand side of the farmhouse to which it belongs, standing taller to serve as a watch and defence point, and has four storeys: on the outside there is a small stone window at the bottom, two Gothic ogee-arched windows on the central levels and three machicolations on the top floor. Inside, the four levels are vaulted, and the whole masonry building is topped with battlements.
Monument
Gothic wayside cross of Alella, in the Maresme, declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest, located on the promenade of the same name, on the route of the old Royal road that led to the town's historic centre. It stands on four circular stone steps; the shaft, of octagonal section, rests on a decorated base, also with eight sides. On one face of the cross the Virgin Mary is depicted with the four figures of the Tetramorph on each of her arms, and on the other, the figure of Christ crucified; on the knop, at the top of the column, eight figures are carved, possibly saints. Today the cross no longer marks the entry point or start of the municipal boundary.
Monument
Can Magarola is an old fortified farmhouse in Alella, in the Maresme, listed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest, with an attached tower declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest. Documented since 1359 as Mas Oller, it passed through several families until, in 1625, it came to Pere de Magarola i Fontanet, president of the Generalitat and bishop of Elne, Vic and Lleida, whose descendants gave it its name. Rectangular in plan, it is notable for the square tower on the southwest side, crowned with stepped battlements, with an arcade on the ground floor and a balcony with a chapel on the main floor; beneath the building is a cellar with large arches. Acquired by Alella town council in 1969, it housed the municipal museum until 2004 and today is the headquarters of the Alella Denomination of Origin.
Monument
The Can Boquet tower, from the 16th century, stands on Avinguda de Sant Josep de Calassanç in Alella (Maresme, Barcelona) and is declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest (BCIN). It is part of the Can Boquet complex, listed as an Asset of Local Interest, whose oldest buildings, of Gothic style and vernacular construction, date back to the 15th century.
Monument
Can Calderó is a fortified farmhouse in Alella, in the Maresme, listed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest, with a defence tower declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest. Its origins go back to the old Mas Oliver or Font, which at the end of the 13th century passed to the Dauder family. In 1655 the property came by marriage to the jurist Miquel de Calderó i de Masdovelles, professor of civil law and regent of the Royal Audience, who converted the farmhouse into a manor house and built the chapel, blessed in 1682; because of his loyalty to Archduke Charles, the Bourbon side removed him from office and confiscated his property after the War of the Spanish Succession. The house, with ground floor, main floor and attic, preserves a cellar with two original wine presses.
Monument
Cal Doctor is a farmhouse in Alella, in the Maresme, listed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest. Formerly called Can Pujades de Munt, it was the ancestral home of the Pujades, one of the oldest families in the municipality, documented since the 13th century; between the 17th and 18th centuries it was the residence of three generations of doctors, hence its present name. It has a ground floor and one upper floor, with a large voussoired doorway possibly from the 14th century and a mullioned window on the central axis, as well as a wrought-iron balcony with a tiled floor. At the rear stands a square tower topped with battlements. The restored façade preserves a sgraffito sundial, although much altered from the original.
Food and drink
One of the smallest designations in Catalonia, wedged between Barcelona and the Montnegre, on soils of granitic sand called sauló. Its characteristic grape is the pansa blanca, which gives light, dry whites of marked acidity.
Food and drink
Pears filled with minced beef or pork and cooked with spices, with cinnamon as the dominant aroma. It is a festive dish that combines sweet and savoury and that is served accompanied by the white wine of the district.