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What to see and do in Tordera

What to see and do in Tordera (Maresme, Barcelona): 2 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Nature

How far each place is from the centre of Tordera

Can Torrent Pond 1.7 km

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What to see and do in Tordera

Tordera
Village
Tordera is a municipality on the northern edge of the Maresme, in the province of Barcelona, next to the comarca of La Selva and on the banks of the river that gives it its name, which flows into the Mediterranean between Malgrat de Mar and Blanes. With 19,039 inhabitants, it is the largest municipality in the comarca, even bigger than the capital, Mataró, and it comprises a historic centre by the river as well as numerous scattered housing developments. The place name comes from the Latin Turdaria, land of the thrush, already documented in the 10th century. The relief combines the river plain with the foothills of the Montnegre massif. Tordera is experiencing strong demographic and industrial growth, and holds a busy weekly market every Sunday, besides its main festival and the Fira Mercat del Ram.
Can Torrent Pond
Nature
The Estany de Can Torrent is a temporary flooding pond that retains water almost all year round in its main sector, to the north-east, and occupies, together with the wetland surrounding it, 6.38 hectares in the alluvial plain of the Tordera river. It holds a well-preserved riverside forest, dominated by white willow and narrow-leaved ash, with an extensive stand of grey club-rush. Its fauna is notable for the palmate newt and two singular crustaceans, the copepod Mixodiaptomus kupelwieseri and the cladoceran Tretocephala ambigua. Its main threats are the drop in groundwater levels and the possible agricultural conversion of the land. Together with the small ponds of Can Raba, la Júlia and Prats d'en Gai, it forms the Estanys de Tordera area of natural interest.