Saint Perpetua of Moguda

Santa Perpetua de Mogoda (officially and in Catalan Santa Perpètua de Mogoda) is a municipality in Catalonia located in the Vallés Occidental region.

It is located 7 km from Sabadell and 18 km from Barcelona. According to the last population census (2021), there were a total of 26,033 inhabitants with a municipal area of 15.7 km².

There are documents that mention the town from the X century, although remains of the Iberian culture have been found, and also from a chorra to the Roman.

In the middle of the XIX century, the first textile factories in the municipality were installed: El Vapor and Ca'n Andal.

Media

• Ràdio Santa Perpetua 107.6 FM (Municipal)
• L'informatiu de Santa Perpetua (Municipal)
• Linia Vallès

Communications

Rodalies of Catalonia

The municipality is connected to the R3 line of Rodalies de Catalunya through the station located in the neighborhood of La Florida with the name of La Florida. This station connects it directly with Barcelona and other important municipalities such as Moncada and Reixach, Granollers or Vich. In addition, in June 2022 the new Rodalies de Catalunya line R8 station came into service under the name of Santa Perpètua de Mogoda | Riera de Caldes in the surroundings of the Soldevila Farm. This station connects the municipality with towns such as Sant Cugat del Vallès, Rubí or Martorell; in addition to allowing you to reach the Autonomous University of Barcelona in less than 5 minutes.

Buses

Santa Perpètua de Mogoda has several bus lines operated by Sagalés:

• e10: connects directly with Barcelona and the municipalities of Poliñá and Senmanat.
• 201: connects with Barcelona but not directly through La Llagosta and Moncada and Reixach. In the other direction it connects with Palau-solità i Plegamans and Caldas de Montbuy.
  • 202 and 203: with a very low frequency there are also these two lines that make the same journey as 201 but arriving beyond Caldas de Montbuy. The 202 arrives to San Felíu de Codinas and 203, passing through San Felíu de Codinas, San Quirico Safaja, Castelltersol and Moyá reach Estany.
• 295: It is an urban bus that moves across Santa Perpetua de Moguda, passing through the two stations of the R3 and R8 lines of Rodalies of the municipality, until reaching the Rodalies station of La Llagosta.
• 345: connects with the Autonomous University of Barcelona through Mollet del Vallès.
• 360: connects with Sabadell and in some cases also with Badalona.
• N-70: night bus connecting to Barcelona, Poliñá, Palau-solità i Plegamans, Caldas de Montbuy and Senmanat.

Roads

The municipality is connected to the AP-7 highway and the C-59 highway.

Symbols

Shield

The coat of arms of Santa Perpetua de Moguda is defined by the following coat of arms:

Embalded shield: from a palm of gules on a stick, sharpening a wreath of siple laurel; the embroidery of gules. By bell a city wall crown.

It was approved on April 21, 1983 and published in the DOGC on May 25 of the same year. The palm and the laurel wreath are the attributes of Santa Perpetua Mártir, patron saint of the town.

Flag

The flag of the municipality has the following description:

Possessed flag of proportions two high by three long, white, with a red palm centered, sticking, and sharpening a crown of green laurel; red embroidery of a thickness 1/9 of the high cloth that, as a whole, results from the conversion of the shield to flag.

It was published in the DOGC on October 29, 1990.

Places of interest

• Mogoda Castle

The farmhouses of Can'Oller, Can Banús, Can Miralpeix and Can Sabau are of interest. The Soldevila Farm (Mas Granollacs) is later, but emblematic of the town.

Santiga, district where we find a Romanesque church and "the wall of the poets", a wall with sculptures dedicated to poets.

On the other hand, the most emblematic institute in the area is the IES Estela Ibérica, since it is where the stone-engraved manuscript of the Iberians was found. Inside the institute, in the library, there is an exact replica of what was found in that place in its day. It should be noted that it is one of the first manuscripts in Spain.

Football speaking, its representation is called Santa Perpetua Soccer Club Unification, whose website is the following: UCF SANTA PERPETUA website

Cultural spaces

Soldevila Farm

This is a farmhouse founded in 1911 as the residence of the Soldevila family that was engaged in the textile industry. During the following years it was a farm dedicated to the agricultural sector, they specialized in dairy products and were the pioneers of formula milk and other dairy derivatives. At the end of the twenties it returned to being solely a family residence, until the 1970s when it was expropriated and is currently part of the patrimony of the Santa Perpetua town hall. It is currently the cultural space of Santa Perpetua, where a large part of the town's cultural activity is centered. At the Soldevila Farm we can find the Santa Perpetua radio station and also the town's municipal music and dance school, which has a long tradition. In addition, there are also the headquarters of the council of culture and economic promotion. The Josep Jardí Library and the municipal museum are also part of this space.

Municipal Museum

It basically consists of the interior of the house, as well as a permanent collection and other temporary ones. The interior of the house is adorned with modernist decoration due to the elevated position of its owners. The marble fireplaces in the different rooms, ceramics with designs by Domènec i Montaner, stained glass windows and balconies, wrought iron work on railings, windows and lanterns; These are some of the many elements that show the interest of the Soldevila family to show its social importance.

Municipal School of the Arts

It is a center with the aim of bringing music and dance closer to the citizens of the municipality, offering them, through education, the possibility of making, understanding and enjoying music and dance. Promoting the action of dancing, singing and/or playing an instrument as something ludic and also formative is one of the objectives of the school, as well as creating habits of use of artistic productions and training spectators who know and value music and dance. as well as its diversity.

Ràdio Santa Perpètua 107.0FM (256KF8EHF) municipal radio station

The municipal radio station of Santa Perpetua was inaugurated on March 5, 1989 after a testing period of more than a year. On the occasion of the inauguration, an open house was scheduled in the morning and a concert in the afternoon at the Pavelló Municipal d'Esports by the group "Loquillo y Los Troglodytes". The final legalization of the station came on March 30, 2006 when the Ministry of Industry authorized the Santa Perpetua City Council to operate the service.

In the mid-90s, it was one of the first local stations in Spain to experiment with broadcasting over the internet through the Live365 service. These experimental broadcasts continued to evolve irregularly until they were consolidated after arriving in the transmitter of the Internet connection by ADSL around the year 2005. Currently you can follow their broadcasts over the Internet through an online player hosted on their website http://radio.staperpetua.org

The first version of the station's podcast arrived around October 2008, thanks to a pre-existing news portal programmed with PHPNuke, which was originally used to publish local news edited by the station's staff since May 2004 to April 2009, the date on which the website was completely renewed with its own media, giving more prominence to the podcast section.

Ràdio Santa Perpètua is committed to local information and is a means of communication open to audience participation. In addition, part of the programming is carried out by collaborators, thus becoming a pool of future professionals in the medium. For example, the program "Deixa'm tastar" Presented by Marc Orozco and Xènia Roset, currently at SER Cataluña after going through Onda Cero and La Xarxa, his journey began on this station.

Some of the most relevant programs of Ràdio Santa Perpètua are: the news spots prepared by the station's journalistic teams, "L'Informatiu migdia" with daily local news and "La Veu de l'Esport" dedicated to local sports information that is broadcast on Mondays. Also, every day the morning show "Fem Matí" with Andrés Aracil and the afternoon magazine, "Crèdit Variable" with Gemma Abasolo. Other programs that stand out in the programming are: such as the longest-running "Los perros de Baskerville" (currently "Baskerville Hotel") run by Arturo Pedrerol; "Found You Music", a music program dedicated to electronic music hosted by Kevin Romero and Nil Garcia; "Recanvi climàtic" dedicated to the environment led by Josep Maria Margalida; "Viking Rock" presented by Iván Lorente and dedicated to rock; Lastly, we highlight "La lletra petita de la història" dedicated to local history and presented by Tamar Zamora.

Ràdio Santa Perpètua is located in the premises of the Servei de Comunicació, in the Soldevila Farm. This service also deals with l'Informatiu, a fortnightly publication that is mailed to all homes and is a reference, together with Ràdio, for current news in the town.

Josep Jardí Library

This building is the last to form part of the cultural nucleus of the Soldevila Farm. This library is very recent, it was inaugurated in April 1999. Its mission is to provide information, knowledge and culture to the citizens of Santa Perpetua. It aims to be an active service, open to the population and useful. Its mission is to meet citizen needs in knowledge and access to culture. Among other services, it has a reading club, Wi-Fi and reading workshops for both children and adults.

Administration

Mayors since the 1979 elections

Period	Name	Party
1979-1983	Pere Bufí Pérez	PSUC
1983-1987	Pere Bufí Pérez	PSUC
1987-1991	Pere Bufí Pérez	IC
1991-1995	Pere Bufí Pérez	IC
1995-1999	Pere Bufí Pérez	IC
1999-2003	Pere Bufí Pérez	IC-V
2003-2007	Isabel García Ripoll	IC-V
2007-2011	Manuel Ruiz Montero	PSC
2011-2015	Isabel García Ripoll	IC-V
2015-2019	Isabel García Ripoll	IC-V
2019-	Isabel García Ripoll	Santa Perpètua en Comú