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What to see and do in Sant Pol de Mar

What to see and do in Sant Pol de Mar (Maresme, Barcelona): 4 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Nature · 1 Food and drink

How far each place is from the centre of Sant Pol de Mar

Church of Sant Pol de Mar 50 m

Towns near Sant Pol de Mar

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What to see and do in Sant Pol de Mar

Sant Pol de Mar
Village
Sant Pol de Mar is a coastal town in the Maresme comarca, located between Calella and Canet de Mar, about 50 kilometres from Barcelona. It has 5,793 inhabitants (INE 2025). The settlement grew up around the monastery of Saint Paul, in the 10th century, and lived for centuries off fishing until, in the late 19th century, the arrival of the Maresme railway turned it into a summer resort for the Barcelona bourgeoisie, who left as a legacy numerous summer residences and Modernista houses, visible today when strolling through the town and explaining its reputation as a well-preserved town. Its present economy relies on a not overly crowded family tourism and on a renowned pastry-making industry; during the second half of the 20th century the manufacture of car brakes also carried some weight.
Church of Sant Pol de Mar
Monument
The hermitage of Sant Pol, or church of Sant Pol, is the parish church of Sant Pol de Mar (Maresme), a former monastery and fortified church declared bien cultural de interés nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection). It stands on a hillock facing the sea and today holds services only occasionally. It is a single-nave building with a slightly pointed barrel vault and a semicircular apse; in 1434 the apse was raised to fortify it, and in the modern era the nave was lengthened by adding a square tower topped by two bellcotes. The monastery, founded by Coptic monks, already existed in 955; it suffered pirate attacks in the early 11th century that led to its abandonment, and in 1068 Ramon Berenguer I granted it to the monks of Lérins, who at the end of that century built the current Romanesque building.
Torrents of Morer and Golinons
Nature
Streams flowing down to the coast at Sant Pol de Mar from the interior of the Maresme.
Carme Ruscalleda and the Sant Pau
Food and drink
The cook opened in 1988 in her village a restaurant that reached three Michelin stars and brought to the fore the produce of the Maresme and of the nearby sea. It closed in 2018 after three decades of seasonal cooking.