Editing Terrassa (section)

== Notable sites ==

=== The churches of Sant Pere (Saint Peter) ===
[[File:Egara. Sant Miquel.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Sant Miquel.]]
[[File:Huguet-santsAbdoSenen-0021 collage.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Altarpiece of Sant Abdó i Sant Senén.]]
These three churches were built close to the site of old Ègara to be the seat of the Ègara [[Diocese]], which was founded around 450 CE and remained in existence until the 8th century. This episcopal complex follows the Byzantine model of antiquity, with two churches (Sant Pere and Santa Maria) and a [[mausoleum]] (Sant Miquel). After a long period of construction, the churches were finished in the then-current manner about the 11th and 12th centuries and in Romanesque style, on the site of the pre-Romanesque buildings of the Visigothic period.
The church of Santa Maria contains outstanding works of art, and there are murals dating from the Romanesque period to the [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]]. There is also an altar stone dating from the 10th century and medieval and Romanesque tombstones (one of which documents the name of the Roman town of Egara). In the [[transept]] there are three [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] [[altarpiece]]s.

* Santa Maria (Saint Mary) the old Cathedral
**[[Apse]] from the 6th century
**[[Nave]] from the 11th century with exterior [[Lombardy]]-style decorations  
**Romanesque [[fresco]]es of [[Saint Thomas Becket]] from the 12th century
**Frescoes from the 13th century
* Sant Pere (Saint Peter)
**Transept and apse from 9th to 10th centuries
**Nave from the 12th century
**[[Mosaic]] from the 10th century (geometric designs)
**Stone altarpiece of Sant Pere from the 10th century
**Gothic frescoes from the 13th century
* Sant Miquel (Saint Michael)
**The [[Greek cross]] plan and the walls are the originals from the 6th century
**Frescoes from the 7th and 8th centuries in the apse
* Other items
** Altarpiece of Sant Pere (1411) by [[Lluís Borrassà]]
** Altarpiece of Roser (1587)
** Altarpiece of Sant Ruf (17th century)
**Altarpiece of Sant Miquel (1450–51) by Jaume Cirera and Guillem Talarn
**Gothic altarpiece of Sant Abdó i Sant Senén (1460) by [[Jaume Huguet]]
**Polychrome sculpture of Saint Mary from the 14th century

=== Other ===
The city is heir to a rich medieval, ''Modernista'' and industrial legacy, and possesses an extensive network of libraries, historical archives and museums.

* The museum of Terrassa, municipally-owned, has various sections: 
** Castle/[[wikt:charterhouse|Charterhouse]] of Vallparadís, in the [[Vallparadís Park|Park of Vallparadís]]
** Visigothic-Romanesque churches of Sant Pere (Saint Peter) 
** Casa Alegre de Sagrera, ''Modernista'' house in Carrer Font Vella
** Tower of the Palau, the only vestige of the castle-palace of the count-kings of Catalonia in Terrassa 
** Center of medieval interpretation of the city of Terrassa 
** Convent of Sant Francesc, [[cloister]] decorated with polychromed ceramics (1671–1673) 
* [[MNACTEC|Museum of Science and Industry of Catalonia]], in the former Aymerich Amat i Jover mill, managed by the [[Generalitat de Catalunya]]