GRANOLLERS

city, Barcelona province, in the autonomous community (region) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. The capital of the fertile Valls region, Granollers is a marketing and manufacturing centre that produces chemicals and textiles. It has many fine medieval houses and the 12th-century Gothic church of San Esteban. Called Granullaria (from the Latin word for grain) by the Romans because of its agricultural importance, Granollers became a self-governing commercial city in medieval times and played a major role in the 15th-century Catalan revolt against John II of Aragon. It suffered heavy bombing damage in 1938 during the Spanish Civil War. Pop. (1981) 45,300.