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Calella is a tourist town on the Costa del Maresme, 56 km from Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. It is famous for its hosting of the Calella Universities European Championships. Demography: References: * Panareda Clopés, Josep Maria; Rios Calvet, Jaume; Rabella Vives, Josep Maria (1989). "Guia de Catalunya", Barcelona:Caixa de Catalunya. ISBN 84-87135-01-3 (Spanish). ISBN 84-87135-02-1 (Catalan). The Discovery of Calella: The town of Calella, because of its then picturesque regional typicality, became a "lieu de nostalgie" for fin de siècle Catalan historians in search of places still rich in "catalanitat": notably Josep Andreu y Gay, Josep Esteve Bartrina i Vilaró, and Jaume Marxuach i Flaquer. The Plaça Jaume Marxuach i Flaquer is both a memorial to one of the pioneering historians in the "discovery" of Calella, as well as a by-product of the radical physico-socioeconomic transformations the town was to undergo as a consequence of its incorporation into that nascent Belle Époque ... Read more about Calella on Wikipedia