The place I have been living in for the past decade is called Badia del Vallès. It is a town and municipality in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, Catalonia.
The township has its beginnings in the decade of 1960 by a government plan aimed at creating a residential area on the outskirts of the towns of Barberà del Vallès and Cerdanyola del Vallès.
The construction was started and completed in the first half of the decade of 1970.
On a day like today, in 1994, Badia del Vallès separated from Barberà del Vallès and Cerdanyola del Vallès and it established itself as a municipality. Before that, the town had been known as "Ciutat Badia."
The town covers an area of 0.92 square kilometers (0.36 square miles) and, as of 2014, it has a population of 13,553 inhabitants.
Most of these people emigrated from the southern half of Spain. Thus, being a migrant bird, the swallow was chosen as the symbol of the town.
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