Municipality of Manresa

Ajuntament de Manresa is a local public body, specifically a municipality of Catalonia, Spain. The city of Manresa, with a population of 80.208 inhab. (2024) and a surface area 41,66 sq km, has a historical background of over one thousand years. 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 (around 180.000 inhabitants) and it plays a very important role of capital status of a wider territory (over 500.000 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 a greener, fairer and more productive city, leaving no one behind. We have local competencies in education and youth and we develop public policies in both fields.