Costa del Maresme Map: Mataró, Calella and Canet
The Maresme is the fifty-five kilometres of coast between Barcelona and the Tordera river, and its defining feature is a railway. The R1 line was laid along the shoreline in the 1840s and is still there, which is why these beaches have a track behind them rather than a promenade – and why the whole coast is reachable from Barcelona without a car.
What is plotted on the Costa del Maresme map
The map carries 5 places on this coast: 2 historic sites, 2 museums, 1 viewpoint. They span roughly 18 km in a straight line, from Calella Lighthouse in the north to Iluro in the south.
The Costa del Maresme coast, north to south
Every marker on the map, in the order you would meet it driving south. The distance is a straight line from the place above it.
| Place | Type | From previous |
|---|---|---|
| Calella Lighthouse Calella’s lighthouse replaced a corsair watchtower in 1859 and still turns an optic moved here from the Medes Islands in | Viewpoint | — |
| Castle of Santa Florentina An 11th-century fortified house rebuilt around 1900 by Domènech i Montaner with publishing money — and Horn Hill in Game | Historic site | 6 km |
| Lluís Domènech i Montaner House-Museum The Palau de la Música and Hospital de Sant Pau were drawn in a 16th-century farmhouse studio in Canet de | Museum | 1 km |
| Mataró Museum Mataró’s museum is spread over four buildings: a 1565 manor, a Roman villa, an art centre and Spain’s biggest pre-war | Museum | 13 km |
| Iluro Roman Iluro was only eight hectares, but its 1st-century BC street grid still shapes the old town of Mataró two | Historic site | 0 km |
By what you are looking for
Historic site (2): Castle of Santa Florentina, Iluro
Museum (2): Lluís Domènech i Montaner House-Museum, Mataró Museum
Viewpoint (1): Calella Lighthouse
How to read the map
Each marker is coloured by place type, so a glance tells you whether a point is a beach, a town or a natural park. Clicking a marker opens its name, type and a link to the full page. The checkbox bar above the map filters by type: untick everything except beaches to see only the coastline, or leave only historic sites to plan a day inland. Markers cluster when zoomed out, so a number in a circle means several places sit close together — zoom in and the cluster splits.
For the coast written up as a single read, see the region page.
Town guides in this comarca
- Mataró — the Maresme capital, with Roman Iluro underneath it
- Calella — the package-holiday veteran, an hour from Barcelona by train
- Canet de Mar — where the Palau de la Música was drawn
- Vilassar de Mar — a working Maresme coast town
For the coast as a whole see the Costa Barcelona guide, the region page, or the full Costa Barcelona map.
Every place we have mapped on the Costa del Maresme
5 towns, beaches, coves and landmarks, kept up to date automatically.